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Intellects Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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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… — Samuel Johnson
- All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte
- Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — 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… — Ezra Taft Benson
- We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. — Henry David Thoreau
- In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is… — Charles Lindbergh
- Great intellects are skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche