Intellect Quotes

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When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment… — Habib Umar bin Hafiz
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are… — Aristotle
I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the… — Chris Shays
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect… — Mahatma Gandhi
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together. — Hugh MacDiarmid
Chess is the touchstone of intellect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the… — Gerald Heaney
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. — Muhammad Iqbal
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding… — Gordon Campbell
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination — Henry David Thoreau
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades… — Swami Vivekananda
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,… — Mark Twain
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
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. — Charles Scribner IV

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