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Intellect Quotes

"The human mind is capable of anything"
Ian McEwan
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart "
Alain de Botton
"The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"
Virginia Woolf
"Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing."
Anne Sexton
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. "
James Madison
"Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man."
Thomas Hobbes
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts.' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
Thomas Hobbes
"Character is higher than intellect. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be"
Jorge Luis Borges
"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Philosophy is the light of the soul and should be pursued by all rational beings"
Thomas Reid
"He is a fool who sees not"
William Blake
"Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind"
E. B. White
"Common sense should always be in great quantity, compared with the rest of one's intellectual stores"
Philip Sidney
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