Ability Quote by Alfred Bester Download Open image “Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.” — Alfred Bester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ability Intellect Intelligence Obvious
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognize its limits — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough! — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
