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