#intellect

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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