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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.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a read more

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.

by E. F. Schumacher Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no read more

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

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious
the world of God within us. There read more

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.

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The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

by William Wordsworth Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial
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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.

by Henri Louis Bergson Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, read more

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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Intellect Quotes,
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