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The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.