Intellect Quotes · Page 20

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

— Ezra Pound

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

— Oscar Wilde

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We were forever and always. My love for you being forever, while the child in you is always.

— Dominic Riccitello

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they…

— Erykah Badu

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

— William James

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human…

— Francis Bacon

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may…

— Edward Thorndike

Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do…

— Darynda Jones

In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when…

— Charlotte Bronte

“How can one let go of dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') whilst residing in dehadhyas? For that, go to…

— Dada Bhagwan

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices… The prejudiced against color finds several…

— Herman Melville

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states…

— Wilfred Trotter

“Who strive not for objects unattainable, grieve not for what lost and gone be, Who suffer not mind clouded amid mishap, have…

— Munindra Misra

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to…

— Suzy Kassem

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,…

— Alexandre Koyre

Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities…

— Gary Chapman

“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its…

— Dan Brown

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the…

— Baldassare Castiglione

Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language…

— Leslie Jamison

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was…

— Jane Goodall

“Know this, you can start over, every morning. Know that every day you have an opportunity to respond. Be educated, rather than…

— Emma Mildon

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Matthew Simpson

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Daniel Keys Moran

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that…

— Guru Nanak

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it…

— Emile Zola

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute…

— Evelyn Underhill

“Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous. — Sun Tzu,”

— Steven Gary Blank

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

— Oscar Wilde

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

— Peter Adamson

“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

— George Eliot

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana