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For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#god #grace #intellect #soul #faith

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar. ↗

— Frederick M. Vinson

#constitutional #difference #imposed #individuals #intellectual

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ↗

— Voltaire

#excellence #make #others #our #own

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#action movie #how #idea #intellectual #movie

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#allowed #believed #followed #i #intellectuals

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#information #intellect #internet #now

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

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I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#concerned #far #intellectual #nine #practically

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century