
Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you. – Stephen Richards
- The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent. – Fundamentals of Chess
- What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation. – Dada Bhagwan
- An ID number is only there to ‘identify’ human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. – Dada Bhagwan
- The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. – T Geronimo Johnson
- Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I’ve determined there is a God based on His intellect. – William Branks
- Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people. – Amit Kalantri
- To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind. – Dada Bhagwan
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- What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that. – Debasish Mridha
- Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. – Debasish Mridha
- Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. – Frank Wanderer
- Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag. – RuPaul
- Your ego decides the humanity in you…Higher the ego lesser the humanity…. – Adil Adam Memon
- Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love. – Human Angels
- I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love. – Jay Woodman
- Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-”to most people-”not important at all. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I don’t want any gay people hanging around me while I’m killing kids. I just don’t want to see it. – Bill Hicks
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- A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing. – Ken Follett
- Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don’t want any gay people hanging around me while I’m killing kids. I just don’t want to see it. – Bill Hicks
- With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying. – Craig Ferguson
- People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture. – Enock Maregesi