Intellects Quotes
51 quotes by 42 authors
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend…
— Teresa of Avila
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
— Samuel Johnson
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to…
— Charles Lindbergh
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is…
— Auguste Comte
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Great intellects are skeptical.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of…
— Yasmina Khadra
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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make…
— Charles Simic
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
— Edward Thorndike
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...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness…
— John Blacking
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
— Samuel Johnson
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All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing…
— Thomas de Quincey
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible…
— William Winwood Reade
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Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.…
— Horace Mann
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
— Samuel Johnson
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated…
— Vannevar Bush
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The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that…
— Teresa of Avila
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