Intellect Quotes

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The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the… — Robert Southey
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. — Robert M. Hutchins
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to… — Pope Benedict XVI
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that… — Thomas Merton
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method,… — Linus Pauling
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -… — Richard Dawkins
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden… — Lewis Thomas
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short,… — Alec Guinness
The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the… — Alexander Clark
You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you… — Nirmala Srivastava
You are not to be guided by your intellect, but by your wisdom, as you are Sahaja Yogis. So, you have a very good instrument… — Nirmala Srivastava
You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect. — Nirmala Srivastava
Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect. — Nirmala Srivastava
I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava
Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating. — Nirmala Srivastava
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better. — Emile Zola
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach… — Alfred Adler
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there… — Charles Darwin
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to… — Charles Darwin
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and… — Leonardo da Vinci

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