Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations quotes
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
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Michelangelo, The Artist, Longfellow's translation.
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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.
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Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter II.
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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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Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1907), Chapter II.
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For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
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Thomas Carlyle, Varnhagen Von Ense's Memoirs, London and Westminster Review (1838).
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Intellect.
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'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Titmouse, line 65.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics.
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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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book I, Chapter VIII.
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
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George Sand, Handsome Lawrence, Chapter II.
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The march of intellect.
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Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume II, p. 361.
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It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.
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Simone Weil, Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
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Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
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Albert Edward Wiggam, as quoted in Philippine Almanac (1986), p. 344.
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The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
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William Wordsworth, Excursion, Book III.
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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William Wordsworth, Borderers; written eighteen years before Excursion.