Intellect Quotes

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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 judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

The light of the Sun is the pure energy of intellect.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.