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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Doors

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Mean, Helping, Shows

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.27, e-artnow

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• The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Hands, Achieve

  c.1538 Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self- Portrait (1968).

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• The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failing, Conscience

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.140

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• The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Useless Things, Acquisition

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

  Augustus Hare

  Wise, Wisdom, Glasses

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• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017

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• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beauty, Broken Heart, Beautiful

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Down And, Limits, Failing

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• The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

  Moses Harvey

  Reality, Study, Results

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• The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

  William Fleming

  Memories, Imagination, Perception

  William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264

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• The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doors, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.390, Рипол Классик

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• We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

  William James

  Thinking, Function, Participating

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.669, Simon and Schuster

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• The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Intuition

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• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Feelings, Important, Matter

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Intellect confuses intuition.

  Piet Mondrian

  Intuition

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• Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Character, Angel

  "Why there's no such thing as a gifted child" by Wendy Berliner, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2017.

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• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Sexy, Thoughtful

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• Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart.

  Mooji

  Heart, Mind, Lost

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Graphic Arts Books

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