Quotes About Intellect

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What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining observation with fantasy allowed him, like other creative geniuses, to make unexpected leaps that related things seen to things unseen. "Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Ginevra de Benci was made by a young artist with astonishing skills of observation. The Mona Lisa is the work of a man who had used those skills to immerse himself in a lifetime of intellectual passions.

Busque el conocimiento por sí mismo.

They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet they might merrily admit that they don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, or a transistor and a capacitor, or an integral and differential equation. These concepts might seem difficult. Yes, but so, too, is Hamlet. And like Hamlet, each of these concepts is beautiful. Like an elegant mathematical equation, they are expressions of the glories of the universe.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction

Leonardo refuted this by arguing that painting is not only an art but also a science. In order to convey three-dimensional objects on a flat surface, the painter needs to understand perspective and optics. These are sciences that are grounded in mathematics. Therefore, painting is a creation of the intellect as well as the hands.

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

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He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.

Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks.

Study of light hitting a head.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

My mind, having been much more improved by reading than Keimer's, I suppose it was for that reason my conversation seemed more valued. They had me to their houses, introduced me to their friends, and showed me much civility.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he

Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.

A Einstein le ponía los pelos de punta cualquier forma de tiranía sobre las mentes libres, desde el nazismo hasta el estalinismo, pasando por el macartismo.

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.