Intellects Quotes

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If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. — Ovid
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book… — Josh Holloway
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see… — Flannery O'Connor
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Henry Seidel Canby
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. — Oliver Goldsmith
Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people… — Ray Manzarek
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame… — Robert M. Hutchins
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of… — Karl Marx
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims,… — Edward Thorndike
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted… — Anthony Trollope
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. — Leonardo da Vinci
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
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects… — Charles Darwin
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and… — H.G. Wells
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,… — Raymond Carver

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