"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

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"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

George Eliot, British Author

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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."