Intellect Quotes
Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.
The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.
...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.