Best Intelligent Man Sayings

89 Intelligent Man quotes by 73 unique authors

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. — Aldous Huxley
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. — Ed Parker
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil
Intelligent men are dangerous. — Patricia Briggs
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling… — Henrik Ibsen
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being… — Marcel Proust
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent… — Rumi
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the… — Leo Tolstoy
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it… — Albert Camus
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. — Jack London
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool,… — Giacomo Casanova
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster… — B.F. Skinner
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of… — John Cheever
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man… — Ernest Hemingway
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault

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