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Intellect Quotes by William James
- 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…
- ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such…
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
- In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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- Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
- If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey