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“Great intellects are skeptical”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde
“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused / in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery / by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press / their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
Felix Adler
“In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.”
William James
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
Albert Einstein
“Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.”
David Lindsay
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