Human Intellect Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

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
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
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
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
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
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
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
Human intellect is incurably abstract. — C.S. Lewis
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
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. — Emma Goldman
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
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
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
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
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. — Winston Churchill
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility. — Russell M. Nelson
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
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
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
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville

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