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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Conviction

Geometry

Intellect

Necessity

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pessimism

Intellect

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Stephen Fry

Being

Intellect

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Desiderius Erasmus

Intellect

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Purpose

Intellect

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Shirin Ebadi

Doubt

Intellect