Intellect Quotes

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

I only know that I know nothing

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.