"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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"Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver."
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"There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science."
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"Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect."
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"The brain is the citadel of sense perception."
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"The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone."
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"In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another."
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"Soul and intellect are just the same things."
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
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"Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience."
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"The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience."
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"Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect."
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"It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete."
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"But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?"
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"Tis good-will makes intelligence."
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"Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other."
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