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Intellect Quotes (page 3)

Ray Bradbury quote: "I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I..."
I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. Ray Bradbury
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mark Twain quote: "The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one..."
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... Mark Twain
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the... H. P. Lovecraft
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenc? whether much that is gloriou? whether all that is profoun? does not spring from disease of though? from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. Oscar Wilde
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. E. M. Forster
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far moreconfidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to haveyou reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great thingsfrom Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as inspiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact andskill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will begiven you. Ellen G. White
With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the reader may learn how to educate himself to be a great tomcat, may recognize the full extent of my excellence, may love, value, honour and admire me- and worship me a little. Should anyone be audacious enough to think of casting doubt on the sterling worth of this remarkable book, let him reflect that he is dealing with a tomcat possessed of intellect, understanding, and sharp claws.... E. T. A. Hoffmann
We humbly beg your kind applause? murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face. Thomas Keneally
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed. Charles Darwin
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. C. S. Lewis
To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage. C. S. Lewis
Christopher Hitchens quote: "And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable..."
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. Christopher Hitchens
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels. Barack Obama

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