Intellect Quotes
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
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.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.