Mark Twain Quotes, Real Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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 anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Mean Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

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 is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Men Quotes

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Years Quotes

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Race Quotes

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Boys Quotes

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

6 years ago

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Tags : Al Kooper Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Research Quotes

Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

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Tags : Alan Bock Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Analysis Quotes

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Trying Quotes

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Frogs Quotes

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Ignorant Quotes