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Intellect Quotes by Kenny Smith
- 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…
- The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis;…
- One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of…
- Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially…
- Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings…
- Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can…
More Intellect Quotes
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
- If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross
- Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and… — G. Stanley Hall
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds… — Henry David Thoreau
- My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good. — Albert Rosenfeld