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Intellectual Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who…
- Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,…
- A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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- The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
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- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
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- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher
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- It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni