Intellect Quotes

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

The intellect must be different from the soul.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the universal intellect and the material world.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It’s now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff