#intellect

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. ↗

— William Sanderson

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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

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One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ↗

— Sivananda

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ↗

— Henry Taube

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