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Letter "I" » intellect
«One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.»
«I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(
Astronomer,
Mathematician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Belief,
God,
Intelligence,
Reason,
Senses
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Keywords:
endowed,
endowing,
endows,
forgo,
forgoes,
forgoing,
intellect,
intended,
obliged,
obliges,
obliging,
well endowed
«Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect»
«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
(
Essayist,
Historian)
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About:
Character,
Experience,
Success
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Keywords:
character,
depends,
either,
fortune,
intellect,
lessons,
on the whole,
teaches,
The Fortunes
«Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.»
«Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will»
«Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(
Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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About:
Action,
Mind
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Keywords:
disuse,
even so,
inaction,
intellect,
iron,
ironing,
irons,
just as,
rusted,
rusts,
spoil,
spoiling,
spoilt
«One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
eyeing,
eyes,
Eye for an eye,
heart,
intellect,
In My Eyes,
learns,
one,
see eye to eye,
through
«I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.»
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»
Author: William Blake
(
Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
admitted,
cultivated,
curbed,
curbing,
curbs,
emanate,
enter,
eternal,
ever so,
glory,
governed,
holy,
holy man,
intellect,
passion,
passions,
realities,
The Fool,
The Passions,
treasures,
uncurbed,
understandings