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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Funny, T-shirt

  Tags in Intellect, Witty, Use, Reason, Force

• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  Lionel Trilling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Culture, Intellect, Peculiarly, Virtue

• These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Intellect, Cunning, Inhabitants, Sharp

• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intellect, Powerful, Better

• The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Tags in Intellect, Fooled

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it’s not intellectual – but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  Tadao Ando

  Tags in Overlap, Intellect

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  Walter Horatio Pater

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Temperament, Intellect

• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Tags in Intellect, Politically, Privileged

• People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Tags in Populace, Superior, Intellect, Separates, Hugely

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

  Henri Bergson

  Tags in Intellect

• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Tags in Intellect

• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

  William Butler Yeats

  Tags in Intellect