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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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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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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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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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The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

—Blaise Pascal

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I am worthless, with such a shallow intellect; You are always Merciful to the meek.

—Atharva Veda

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

—Hermann Weyl

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and...

—Henry David Thoreau

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Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.

—Marty Rubin

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Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being “open” inside one’s mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is...

—Tariq Ramadan

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I was amazed at how routine, how mechanically this most powerful intellect was created. It was no burst of inspiration, but almost physical labor instead. I asked myself: was it the same way for God?

—Vadim Babenko

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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural...

—Carl-Gustaf Rossby

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When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

—Criss Jami

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Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver.

—Jarrett McCall

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I couldn’t stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

—Leora Tanenbaum

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Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.

—L.H. Sigourney

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Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces…where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play,...

—Witold Gombrowicz

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There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.

—Thomas Merton

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Deep-rooted beliefs are one of the many consequences of intellect, and also of ignorance; and telling one from the other is sometimes impossible.

—Bryant McGill

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It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

—Debasish Mridha

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When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase ‘Man’s Place in Nature,’ it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin’s theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been...

—Homer W.

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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

—Dean Koontz

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Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

—Raheel Farooq

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Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

—Sorin Suciu

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

—Blaise Pascal

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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or...

—Charles Darwin

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

—George Ade

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People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he...

—George Orwell

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

—Leo Tolstoy

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Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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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

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Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

—Tariq Ramadan

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He had just reached the time of life at which ‘young’ is ceasing to be the prefix of ‘man’ in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect...

—Thomas Hardy

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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

—Chris Campanioni

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{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who,...

—Colonel Robert Ingersoll

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Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it’s usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

—Erica Goros

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But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with...

—Marcel Proust

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We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

—Neil Postman

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Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I’ve always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

—Michka Assayas

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The intellect of man is forced to choosePerfection of the life, or of the workAnd if it take the second must refuseA heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

—W.B. Yeats

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