Intellect Quotes

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

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.

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

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

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

If I think, I am lost.

Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.