Intellect Quotes - Page 33

• Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Differences, People

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

  John Jay Chapman

  Focus, Magazines, Ratios

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  Lydia M. Child

  Jesus, Bravery, Political

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

  John Henrik Clarke

  College, Boards, Language

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• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Clarity, Absolute Certainty, Fascinating

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

  Maureen Dowd

  Mean, Greatness, World

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• Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Party, Body, Biden

  "Eastwood, the empty chair and the speech everyone's talking about" by Halimah Abdullah, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

  Roger Ebert

  Confused, Lying, Emotional

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Farewell

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

  Paloma Faith

  Levels, Speak, Accents

  "Paloma Faith: 'I get mocked for my accent'" by Sophie Hines, www.digitalspy.com. April 19, 2011.

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

  Henry Ford

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, America

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• Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Being Happy, Path

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• We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Agreement, Pessimism, Mark

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• But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Mean, Violence

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• I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

  Temple Grandin

  Satisfaction

  Interview With Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com.

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• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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• Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Eye, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Carolina Herrera from Jul 09, 2012

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• The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Ideas, Intellectual

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Eye, Unique, Humanity

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• Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Determination, Hard Work, Blood

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Motherhood, Should

  "The Report From Baghdad and Pension Funding Troubles". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. June 27, 2003.

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