Intellect Quotes

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Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses. — Thomas Dubay
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying… — Evagrius Ponticus
An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the… — Derek R. Audette
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves… — Thomas Aquinas
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. — R. Buckminster Fuller
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it… — Hans Arp
The brain is the citadel of sense perception. — Pliny the Elder
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis good-will makes intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. — William James
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.… — William Blake
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater… — Marshall McLuhan
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the… — William Hazlitt
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. — Samuel Johnson
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. — Oliver Goldsmith
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress. — Bertrand Russell

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