Intellect Quotes

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Intellect--brain force.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.