Intellect Quote by Alfred Bester Download Open image “The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.” — Alfred Bester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellect Intelligence Obvious Refusal Tests
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognize its limits — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The intellect is a boat which can take us to the very shores of understanding, but once there we must leave it behind in… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. — Richard Hofstadter 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
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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