Intellect Quotes
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.
We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.
No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.
You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
