intelligent, over-intelligent

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Prabhupada: Therefore gurum evabhigacchet. Why do you manufacture yourself? Consult the authorities, then do it. That is intelligence. Why do you think that you are very intelligent? That is materialism. The more you remain that "I am a fool," that is good. And as soon as you become over-intelligent, then, that's finished. So Europeans, Americans, they are over-intelligent. They have intelligence, over-intelligence. Unnecessarily. They manufacture a machine for shaving: gow-gow-gow-gow-gow-gow. [makes machine sound]. [laughter] And they have wasted so much time. So much time. But people like it. (More...)

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