Intellect quotes
Intellect quotes by Albert Einstein
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Education, Understanding, School, Genius, Character
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
Sigmund Freud
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Instinct)Intellect quotes by Stephen Hawking
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Intelligence, Science, Body, Freedom, Search
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing... not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
Erich Maria Remarque
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War, Army, Manipulation, Spirit)
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
David Lynch