Intellect Quotes

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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf
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
The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart. — Gary Zukav
I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. — Tom Robbins
'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius… — William James
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. — Emma Goldman
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can… — Alice Miller
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian. — David Livingstone
Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a… — Arthur W. Pink
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
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new… — Samuel Johnson
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession. — Baltasar Gracian
Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more old-fashioned… — Unknown Author
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion… — Ford Madox Ford
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect â€” but do not believe him. Never put your… — Linus Pauling

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