Sentence examples for intellect to be from inspiring English sources

"He uses his intellect to be wonderfully and deliciously stupid".

Maybe in order for intellect to be in touch with power again, power should keep its distance from intellect.

It surely must require a superior intellect to be a Fascist dictator (unless you inherit the job, like Bashar al-Assad or Kim Jong-un).

Or, as former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said not long ago, Mr. Spitzer has the intellect to be a great governor.

An exile at age 20, he was identified by party elders as a first-rate intellect to be groomed as a leader.

In fact, just as a recurring theme in this presidential race has been whether Gov. George W. Bush has the intellect to be a successful president, so some Gore advisers worry that their candidate may come off, as President Harry Truman would put it, as too much of "a smarty".

Our ability to do so is what al-Kindi calls the "acquired intellect" (not to be confused with "acquired intellect" in al-Farabi, who means by this a comprehensive attainment of the many intellectual forms).

Farabi's most detailed study of the intellect is to be found in the aptly titled "Epistle on the Intellect," Risâla fi'l-'Aql.[19] He begins by showing the diverse contexts in which nominal and verbal forms of "intellect" and "intelligence" are employed.

But the divine intellect obviously does not have the same characteristics as ours, since in order to know something our intellect needs to be informed (per speciem) by its contents, and so is passive in a sense, whereas the divine intellect is itself the cause of its own contents.

"The intellect required to be a clever, strategic and mindful sharer of meat is the essential recipe that led to the expansion of the human brain," Gold writes.

Discussion on how exactly this intellect is to be understood started very early.