Intellect Quotes

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

You have a dizzying intellect.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

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

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

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

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

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

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

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

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

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

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Brahman is the ultimate reality

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.