Intellect Quotes

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From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the… — Henry David Thoreau
When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body,… — Charles Grandison Finney
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. — Unknown Author
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail… — G. Stanley Hall
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. — James Callaghan
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit. — Nan Goldin
All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and… — Unknown Author
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are… — Giorgio de Chirico
Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Unknown Author
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is… — Auguste Comte
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and… — Richard Dawkins
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human… — Meher Baba
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. — Shams Tabrizi
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel… — Dante Alighieri
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a… — Raymond Dart
The hand that follows intellect can achieve. — Michelangelo
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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