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Wisdom seldom knocks thrice; it often teeters on the cliff of transience, and in its impermanence lies new answers aprendizado can illuminate afresh.
Author:
Aveline Littred
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Fleeting insights rotate around our consciousness like distant stars--a night sky inviting spontaneous invigoration rather than passive observation.
Author:
Elara Haven
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When two souls touch under the tailwinds of conversation, fleeting fragments of potential become the piercing laughter of chance profound; it's a tapestry trapped in an infinite exhale.
Author:
Theodora Sylvester
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Intuitive knowledge draws us like gravity pulls planets; it's a silent encryption in our consciousness waiting to be deciphered.
Author:
Elara Finch
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In the soft murmur of shared secrets, great insight travels unshackled by declaration.
Author:
Alia Mercado
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Each challenge to our thinking is a spark; it's the heart-open surrender that turns these sparks into the gold of inquisitive breadth.
Author:
Elara Modesworth
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Embracing fewer responsibilities can extravagantly choose a richer line between freedom and anxiety, revealing that minimalism isn't the absence of things but the essence of making room for what truly matter to our souls.
Author:
Maya Creedon
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Wisdom is not always found in the minds of the intellectuals, sometimes it resides in the heart of the common folk.
Author:
Sofia Martinez
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In the pursuit of knowledge, one finds truth in unexpected places.
Author:
Serena Lee
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
Author:
Leonard Woolf
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.
Author:
Cyrus Vance
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Author:
Paul Valery
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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Author:
Evelyn Underhill
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The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Author:
Evangelista Torricelli
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Author:
Edward Thorndike
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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Author:
Edward Thorndike
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Author:
Edward Thorndike
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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
Author:
Loretta Swit
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Author:
Charles Sumner
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Author:
Leslie Stephen
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From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
Author:
Jean Stafford
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Author:
Sivananda
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
Author:
William Simms
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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Author:
Georg Simmel
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.
Author:
Tom Shales
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Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Author:
Michael Servetus
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
Author:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
Author:
Valentine Saint-Point
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Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.
Author:
Slick Rick
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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
Author:
Horace Porter
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Author:
Walter Pater
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Author:
Charles Parkhurst
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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Author:
Charles Parkhurst
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Author:
Ernest Newman
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Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Author:
Guru Nanak
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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Author:
Mary Moore
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Author:
Alan Moore
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Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.
Author:
Lennart Meri
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Author:
Carson McCullers
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
Author:
John Major
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Author:
Titus Livius
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The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
Author:
Edward Levi
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
Author:
David Lawrence
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Author:
John Keats
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Author:
Garry Kasparov
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Author:
Carl Jung
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Author:
Carl Jung
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Author:
James Joyce
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
Author:
James Johnson
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Author:
Karl Jaspers
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Author:
Edward Hopper
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The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
Author:
David Hilbert
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Author:
Alec Guinness
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I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Author:
Susan Griffin
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I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
Author:
Temple Grandin
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
Author:
W. George
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Author:
John Galbraith
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Author:
Henry Ford
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Author:
William Falconer
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
Author:
Shirin Ebadi
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Author:
Ralph Cudworth
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
Author:
J. Coetzee
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Author:
Karl Clausewitz
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Author:
Karl Clausewitz
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Author:
Lydia Child
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
Author:
John Chapman
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
Author:
James Callaghan
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Author:
Ray Bradbury
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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Author:
Max Born
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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Author:
Max Born
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
Author:
George Boole
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Author:
Uwe Boll
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Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
Author:
Steven Bochco
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Author:
Luciano Berio
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Author:
Henri Bergson
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Inherited wisdom blooms not from dictations of the past but from the nurturing of spirits who muster the courage to challenge untested shadows.
Author:
Sophia Loreto
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Inherited wisdom is not the architecture of endorsement but rather a regional code verbose in grit--it teaches flexibility in knowing there's nuance even amidst nurturing ignorance.
Author:
Evelyn Crown
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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Author:
Jacques Barzun
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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Author:
Tadao Ando
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Author:
Felix Adler
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Author:
Felix Adler
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
Author:
F. Abraham
