Intellect Quotes

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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. — Paul Valery
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. — Leonardo da Vinci
Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet. — Lech Walesa
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too… — Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. — Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. — Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. — Greg Graffin
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to… — Cornel West
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. — Edward Abbey
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. — Edward de Bono
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out… — Anne Sexton
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. — Naguib Mahfouz
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s… — Barack Obama
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. — Oscar Wilde
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's… — Michael Cunningham
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. — Madeleine L'Engle

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