Intellect Quotes · Page 26

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely…

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

— James K. A. Smith

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

— Luciano Berio

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

— Thomas Eakins

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

— Robert Breault

“Intellect (Buddhi) illuminates the Non-Self (Non-Soul), the Self (Soul) illuminates the Self (Soul), as well as the Non-Self (Non-Soul).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves…

— Joseph Joubert

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'…

— Don Adams

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price…

— Richard Hofstadter

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience.…

— Kirk Cameron

“When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only…

— Emma Goldman

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully…

— Juan Williams

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is…

— Vince Lombardi

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or…

— Kenny Smith

“To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing…

— Claude Bernard

“The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and…

— Vera Nazarian

We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he…

— Walter Isaacson

“The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me…

— Orhan Pamuk

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

— Immanuel Kant

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

“The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect…

— Blaise Pascal

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

— Albert Einstein

“Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!”

— Raheel Farooq

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

— William Ralph Inge

The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.

— Oswald Chambers

“imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful resource of the divine intellect, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the…

— Peter Adamson

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation…

— Muhammad Abduh

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

— John Henry Newman

Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer

— Masami Saionji

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

— Bryant H. McGill

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower