Intellect Quotes

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

— C. S. Lewis

“Character is higher than intellect”

— Robin S. Sharma

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

— Rumi

Intellect confuses intuition.

— Piet Mondrian

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Intellect is not wisdom.

— Thomas Sowell

Intellect--brain force.

— Friedrich Schiller

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

— Samuel Johnson

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

— Fernando Pessoa

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

— Jim Butcher

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

— Baruch Spinoza

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave…

— Robert Musil

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

— Bill Johnson

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— J. C. Ryle

“In modeling: He with better looks is more in demand than he who has read better books.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

— Subramanya Bharathi

“The amount of intellect necessary to please us, is a most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have.”

— Helvetius

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power…

— Margaret Gatty

Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional…

— Gigi Graham

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to…

— Frank Herbert

statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do…

— Emma Goldman

Far beyond your intellect, far beyond your understanding, lies inexhaustible knowledge and wealth, strength and power, peace and joy. Do not use…

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even…

— Steven Bochco

“Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more…

— Witold Gombrowicz

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not…

— Mary Tyler Moore

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of…

— Yuanwu Keqin

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is…

— J. C. Ryle

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives…

— Ray Bradbury

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long…

— John Cassian

They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they…

— Frances Ridley Havergal

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,…

— Paul Baran

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as…

— Lance B. Wickman