"Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity."

Intellect, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

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"Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity."

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

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"Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect-better because they alone give promise of final success."

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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."

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"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through 'Gnan' [Knowledge of the Real Self]."

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"There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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

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"The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman."

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"The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it."

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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

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"Human making is our mission."

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"No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise."

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"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."

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"Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them."

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"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion."

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"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

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"It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back."

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