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" Quotes and Sayings About intellect

In intellect there is no sex.

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Intellectual Knows Man More
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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Endowed Sense Reason Intellect
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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
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Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.

Intellectual Feminine Affectionate Know
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Intellect Certain One Permanent
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,

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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

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Transcendental intelligence rises when the intellectual mind reaches its limit and if things are to be realized in their true and essential nature, its processes of thinking must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition.

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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Power Spiritual Need Seen
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Vain Intellect Hand Mystery
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Pretend Understand World Intellect
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Intuition Powerful Intellect Thing
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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Above Characterized Disenchantment Fate
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Always Fooled Heart Intellect
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Does Eye Go Heart
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Belief Flesh Wiser Blood
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I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
Great Intellect Obtain Out
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Banana Intellectual Life Property
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

Decision Forgive Intellectually Make
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Intellectual Job Know Letters
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Geniuses Intellectuals Prevent Problems
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Care Course God Intellect
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Does Gained Hearing Intellect
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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