Intellectual Powers Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

• The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker
• The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… — Charles Darwin
• When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits… — George Saintsbury
• The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
• Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats
• ...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
• For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes
• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept… — Edward H. Levi
• no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. — Jacques Barzun
• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris
• Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of… — Charles Darwin
• Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army… — Sarah M Grimke

Who Wrote These Intellectual Powers Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Intellectual Powers Quotes as follows:

• 3 Intellectual Powers Quotes by Charles Darwin
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Benjamin Banneker
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by George Saintsbury
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by John Keats
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Edsger Dijkstra
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Humphry Davy
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Rene Descartes
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Edward H. Levi
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Jacques Barzun
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Sydney J. Harris
• 1 Intellectual Powers Quote by Sarah M Grimke