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The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man — Cesare Pavese

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. — Luc De Clapiers

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated. — Gautama Buddha

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear. — Katharine Hepburn

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. — Ed Parker

The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy — William Shakespeare

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man. — Shelley Winters

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. — Orison Swett Marden

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato

In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad. — Anton Chekhov

The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite. — Karl Von Frisch

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. — Timothy Noah

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. — Robert Green Ingersoll

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. — Wilkie Collins

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. — John Podhoretz

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace — Howard Metzenbaum

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. — Sam Neill

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal. — Dora Musielak

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between. — Tanya Huff

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition. — W. H. Auden

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him. — Manoj Vaz

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent. — Vinoba Bhave

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. — Cat Deeley

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. — Malcolm X

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. — Malcolm Muggeridge

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues? — Arthur Schopenhauer

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options ... — Peter Greenaway

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization. — Suzy Kassem

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Because going out with an attractive intelligent man who is obviously ass over teakettle for you would be so awful? — Brenda Rothert

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol

Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color. — Henry James

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. — Cormac McCarthy

Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation — Aldous Huxley

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. — Diogenes

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. — Nicolas Chamfort

If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though. — Hank Green

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine. — Elizabeth Moon

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her. — Bette Davis

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe. — George Bernard Shaw

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. — Edwin Lefevre

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design. — Mark Lawrence

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. — Robert A. Heinlein

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. — H.L. Mencken

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray — Maeve Binchy

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.
The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs? — Faina Ranevskaya

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man. — Jemmy Wiratama

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man. — Jean De La Bruyere

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha

No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'. — Rory Miller

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The intelligent find problems;
the wise solve them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know. — Baron De Montesquieu

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. — B.F. Skinner

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing. — Cate Blanchett

An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose. — Shatrujeet Nath

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man. — Marion Barry

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway,

You know that even very intelligent people glory in being able to empty one bottle more than the next man. — Albert Camus

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend. — Herbert

Man is the most intelligent of animals
and the most silly. — Diogenes Laertius

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. — Blaise Pascal

A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know. — Debasish Mridha

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. — Edward Abbey

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him. — Ilyas Kassam

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. — Brendan Fraser

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 Dostoyevsky

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages! — Alex Ferguson

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. — Catherine Deneuve

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work. — Adolf Hitler

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him. — Sylvia Plath

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. — Laozi

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later. — Ramana Maharshi

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man. — Sirio Maccioni

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man. — William S. Burroughs

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung

Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals. — Matthew B. Crawford

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. — G.H. Hardy

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he? — Nikolai Gogol

The intelligent man is never bored. — Isaac Asimov

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede