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Intellect  Quotes
While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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ArgumentBeliefsChallenge
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If you do not like your results in a particular area it is rarely your intellect that deserves the blame, but rather where you have directed your intellect. Results are purchased by how you spend...

—James Clear

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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

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You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

—Dan Brown

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Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a...

—Carlyle

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Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the joke is...

—C.S. Lewis

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This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.

—Alexander McCall Smith

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I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation; it was merry, rather small; by turns I saw vivacity, vanity, coquetry,...

—Charlotte Brontë

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When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor’s horn-book and Mr Piddington’s law of cyclones, Ellis’s anatomy and Lewer’s midwifery, we have already...

—Henry de

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When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We...

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Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don’t want students who could...

—Neil deGrasse

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The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects...

—Victor Hugo

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I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

—Robert G.

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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

—James Rozoff

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Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one’s mind not be a blank slate but already properly...

—Gregory B.

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It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer’s imagination.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

—Joseph Alois

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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.

—Bryant McGill

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[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is —...

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.

—Jarod Kintz

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The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams’ character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed...

—David McCullough

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You’re like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track,...

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do...

—Raheel Farooq

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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

—William James

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It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes...

—C.S. Lewis

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30:21 (Asad) And among His wonders is this: He creates for you mates out of your own kind so that you might incline towards them, and He engenders love and tenderness between you: in this,...

—Unknown Author

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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never...

—Galileo

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Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can’t change much or go any higher than they are, but you’re a genius. You’ll keep going up and up, and see more and...

—Daniel Keyes

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Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

—John Corrigan

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a...

—John Milton

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Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love – on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems.

—sir kristian

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Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth is, and the history of man shows, that he has advanced. Events, like...

—Robert G.

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When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men’s deadliest enemy.

—Ayn Rand

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Google’ is not a synonym for ‘research’.

—Dan Brown

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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

—George Eliot

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Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office. His style of lecturing was as nearly perfect as can well be conceived;...

—Henry Peter

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Don’t run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering...

—Margaret Atwood

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My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack...

—Oscar Wilde

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk...

—Anuj Somany

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The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

—Herman Melville

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GodHeartIntellect
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Yesterday it was a hundred outside. It was fifty degrees, but the air was saturated with average and smog-like intellect.

—Jarod Kintz

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… the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind...

—John Piper

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

—Mark Twain

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