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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"No one can do the learning for you."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed."
"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."
"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."
"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power."
"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect."
"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."
"He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity."
"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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