Intellect Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Great intellects are skeptical.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellect Intelligence Skeptical Skepticism
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I’m consciously shedding the assumption that a skeptical point of view is the most intellectually credible. Intellect does not function in opposition to mystery;… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before. — D. J. Grothe Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that… — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
