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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.

Galileo Galilei
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Benjamin Franklin
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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci
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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.

Sir Francis Bacon
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein
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He's a remarkable intellect with a unique expression in his writing that is challenging and philosophical.

David Greenbaum
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Content of the character and intellect of our people.

Fred Mitchell
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It was apparent from the first day we were there that [Roberts] was an extraordinary intellect with a great work ethic, and he was going to do special things. And he has.

Dean Colson
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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Max Born
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith
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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Patricia Fripp
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I've got money to change an election, it's going to be a lot easier on me to change your mind. If I'm only trying to change your mind on the basis of your intellect and patriotism, it's much harder.

Scott Mccown
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Will and intellect are one and the same.

Bernard M. Baruch
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner
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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Alan Moore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Felix Adler
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From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Jean Stafford
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith
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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Horace Porter
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl von Clausewitz
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[The yarmulke] is an indication that one recognizes that there is something above you. It says, "Above my intellect is a sign of godliness."

Pinchas Stolper
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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

Ambrose Bierce
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I don't think he did anything to make anyone doubt his strength, intellect or willingness to listen. And that is good.

Ernie Ankrim
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