Intellect Quotes · Page 15

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

— Margaret Gatty

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is…

— William Gilmore Simms

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

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

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see…

— Hermann Hesse

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we…

— Philip Johnson

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there…

— George Santayana

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda…

— Adolf Hitler

Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally…

— Josiah Royce

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable…

— William James

When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect…

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Cloned chickens walking around without heads, The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it. Population control, make the babies sick,…

— Pharoahe Monch

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and…

— Plotinus

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…

— Vincent Canby

I know that much of the structure and plan of the universe is beyond my understanding and not at all similar to…

— Rosemary Altea

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I…

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Subramanya Bharathi

“Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful advancement has mainly depended.”

— Charles Darwin

“Some conversations may exhaust your intellect, but certain silences can shatter you emotionally.”

— Shahid Hussain Raja

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

— Richard Avedon

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life…

— Margaret Fuller

“higher learning takes the intellect to the next level,providing a deeper understanding of the world around us”

— Nilufa Nazar

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

— William Ellery Channing

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

— Blaise Pascal

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

— William Butler Yeats

All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than…

— Hortense Powdermaker

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Egoism is alive because of buddhi (intellect). That is why ‘we’ tell you to become abuddha (free of intellect).”

— Dada Bhagwan

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

— Greg Graffin

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

— Thomas Carlyle

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

— Tom Hoover