Intellect Quotes

Intellect Quote of the day

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

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

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

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

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

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

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.