#intelligent man

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' ↗

— John Abbott

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I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Johannes Kepler

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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly. ↗

— Protagoras

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

— Ed Parker

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him. ↗

— Tommy Bond

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