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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
The shorter novels and stories of Carson McCullers (1972) -
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Psychological types: or, The psychology of individuation (1926) -
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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