Quotes with intellect

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  • Lydia M. Child 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
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Herbert Spencer Opinion is ultimately determined by feelings, and not by the intellect.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • George Ade She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • George Santayana Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John Ruskin Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Horace Mann Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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