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It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

—Damon Horowitz

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My intellect was my greatest vanity.

—Dan Simmons

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To understand involves the intellect, but to be understanding involves the heart.

—Jarod Kintz

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Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw...

—Judith C.

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

—Plato

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In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I only know that I know nothing

—Socrates

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Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.

—Bryant McGill

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As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything – pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and...

—E.L. Doctrow

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Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable

—Constance Chuks

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A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

—Dean Koontz

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If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

—Raheel Farooq

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The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

—Philip Guedalla

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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of...

—Abraham Kuyper

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If thinking in the sense of intellection were the same as judging, for example, it would not be possible to think without judgment. We would not be able to accept a judgment without thinking because...

—Alparslan Acikgenc

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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

—H.L. Mencken

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Knowing belongs to man’s intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

—Fulton J. Sheen

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It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man’s very nature.

—Leo Tolstoy

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Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

—Neil deGrasse

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If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

—Ravi Zacharias

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I don’t intend to let my intellect dominate me, and the last thing I want to do is worship knowledge or people who have knowledge! I don’t give a damn for anyone’s aggregation of facts,...

—Susan Sontag

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We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma...

—Ayn Rand

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Of course, I don’t know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it’s probably more accurate to say that I don’t know anything.

—Dean Koontz

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In the conscious- intellect awakens In the subconscious- awareness dissolves. In the unconscious- spirit awakens.

—Gian Kumar

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The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic...

—Gregory B.

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Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

—Michael Barnett

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Ideas are the source of all things

—Plato

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In modeling, the colour of a man’s teeth is more important than his IQ.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

—T. Geronimo

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All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

—Bryant McGill

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He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words...

—Coco J.

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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

—Idries Shah

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It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance...

—Joseph Lewis

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Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

—Raheel Farooq

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The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition...

—Seyyed Hossein

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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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