Intellect Quotes

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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and… — Carl von Clausewitz
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl von Clausewitz
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on… — Isabel Allende
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious,… — Al-MaÊ¿arri
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect. — Richard P. Feynman
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man — Charles Sumner
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole… — Freeman Patterson
The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music… — Michelangelo
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — Ezra Pound
The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never… — Ezra Pound
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

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