Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."
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Intellect
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Henri Bergson
Philosopher
"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism"
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect."
Lewis Terman
Psychologist
"We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated."
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"The intellect seeks, the heart finds."
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"Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect."
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"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."
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"To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect."
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"Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived."
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"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
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"Chess is the touchstone of intellect."
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"A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges."
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect..."
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"The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth."
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"Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character."
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"The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed."
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"Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity."
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"Great intellects are skeptical."
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"Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!"
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"Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect."
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"The intellect is always fooled by the heart."
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"We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions."
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"Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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