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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial
objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely
urging the manufacture.
Author: Henri Louis Bergson
Source: Creative Evolution (ch. II)
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing
organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of
making and using unorganized instruments.
Author: Henri Louis Bergson
Source: Creative Evolution (ch. II)
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For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought
with it the means of seeing."
- Thomas Carlyle,
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs--London and Westminster Review
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs--London and Westminster Review
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into
every individual.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Intellect
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Literary Ethics
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'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Titmouse (l. 65)
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Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
Author: William Falconer
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, l. 104)
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use.
Author: William Falconer
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, l. 104)
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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious
the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there
lies the poet's native land.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
Author: Michelangelo Buonarotti
Source: The Artist, (Longfellow's translation)
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a
pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The
fragments of an intellect are always good.
Author: George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant)
Source: Handsome Lawrence (ch. II)
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The march of intellect.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (vol. II, p. 361)
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Borderers, written 18 years before "Excursion"
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The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Excursion (bk. III)
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Source: None
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Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Author: Thomas Kempis
Source: None
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Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Author: Attributed to the Rev. Denny Brake
Source: None
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.
Author: E. F.Schumacker
Source: None
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They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are.
Author: Chris Hamono
Source: None
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Source: None
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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