Intellect Quotes

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You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect — Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all… — Lawren Harris
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which… — Max Planck
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into… — Theodore Roosevelt
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to… — Baldassare Castiglione
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal — H P Lovecraft
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows… — Thomas Aquinas
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect. — Steve Jobs
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace. — Thomas Aquinas
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character. — Theodore Roosevelt
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful… — Steve Jobs
We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal… — Walt Disney
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage… — Theodore Roosevelt
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led… — Gerald R. Ford
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order… — Frederick Lenz
Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to… — Frederick Lenz
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… — Kenny Smith
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect. — Frederick Lenz
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. — Immanuel Kant
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be shut up and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. — Warren Buffett
The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All… — Hans von Seeckt
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for… — Marshall Brickman

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