Intellect Quotes

Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of...

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely mor...

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their he...

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities ...

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann...

Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than t...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intell...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...

Think sideways!

I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words o...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

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

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powe...

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really de...

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the ...

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi...

But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with the...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell an...

I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the diffe...

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to...

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spea...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the in...

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it ...

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which...

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...

In each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged i...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useles...

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and h...

No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sente...

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it in...

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindednes...

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the ...

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to th...

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...

I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific tre...

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wand...

Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever is dumb.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they c...

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs...

Ideas are the source of all things

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed...

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

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And whe...

Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the int...

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

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

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forer...

I only know that I know nothing

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers D...

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasi...

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anyt...

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

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep o...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to...

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible...

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for myst...

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest ...

This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled stre...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,...