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Tag Name "Intellect" (845)

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We think of Euclid as of fine ice we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.
Walter Bagehot
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
Walter Benjamin
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
Oswald Chambers
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
Walter Savage Landor
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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.
Warren Buffett
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
Warren Buffett
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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Oscar Wilde
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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
Warren Buffett
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In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
George Henry Lewes
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood
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For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.
Allen Tate
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The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
Allan Kardec
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Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
David Mamet
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True success depends more on character than on intellect.
Alfred Armand Montapert
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
Alexander Sutherland Neill
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