Intellect Quotes

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your higher powers have perceived.

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever is dumb.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Think sideways!

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.