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Intellect Quotes

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge"

"The will of man is by his reason swayed"

"We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid"

"Common sense should always be in great quantity, compared with the rest of one's intellectual stores"

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts"

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

"Character is higher than intellect. "

"Language is the dress of thought"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind"

"The intellect is born young and grows old. That is the tragedy of life."

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