Human Intellect Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
— Charles Darwin
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he…
— A. E. Housman
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The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive…
— John William Draper
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
— Victor Hugo
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Human intellect is incurably abstract.
— C.S. Lewis
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But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that…
— Pope Pius XII
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'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
— Emma Goldman
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He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of…
— Mortimer Adler
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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition…
— Tony Hoare
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Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the…
— David Abram
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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
— Winston Churchill
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Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
— Russell M. Nelson
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
— Edward Thorndike
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Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most…
— William E. Gladstone
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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