Intellect Quotes
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.
Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.
I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
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Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.
A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.
If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.
Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.