#intellect

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#appendage #assembly #came #criticisms #five

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

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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

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

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas. ↗

— Jack Welch

#capital #changed #company #find #globalization

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. ↗

— Jack Welch

#bring #ideas #intellectual #into #managers

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. ↗

— Joe Wright

#afterwards #choices #come #feeling #generally