Intellects Quotes

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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
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
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
Great intellects are skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. — Edward Thorndike
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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