I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the… — Hans von Seeckt Copy Share Image
“The intellect is of no use unless it’s disciplined by the mortification of the flesh, so that it may serve the soul.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
“[on the Victim Mentality] It takes a great level of intelligence to maintain a thinking process as stupid as this. Because it… — David G. Allen Copy Share Image
People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect… — Alexander Clark Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the… — Hiram Powers Copy Share Image
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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![“[on the Victim Mentality] It takes a great level of intelligence to maintain a thinking process as stupid as this. Because it is such a great undertaking, we take pride in it. It highlights our intellect. Too bad it also highlights our lack of wisdom. For all our twisting, wringing, stretching…” quote by David G. Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb5/david-g-allen-83971_intellect_on-the-victim-mentality-it-takes-a-great_2413950.jpg)
