"A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time."

Intellect, Thought, Reflection, Insight, Mind

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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."

Max Born, German Mathematician

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"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."

Kresley Cole, American Author

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"She was short on intellect, but long on shape."

George Ade, American Playwright

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"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

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"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality."

Henri Bergson, French Scientist

Intellect, Reality

"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Intellect, Wisdom, Information, Denial, Reality

"The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Intellect, Knowledge, Learning, Thinking, Art

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"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless."

"I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to."

"Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me."

"She was short on intellect, but long on shape."

"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."

"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions."

"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."

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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something."

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real."