The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Understand that wisdom is higher than intellect and discretion is higher than debating. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The best response comes from action, not from intellect. For example, we may hear this question: “If love rules the world, why… — David Richo Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view. — Colleen Moore Copy Share Image
“If the intellect functions in wrong direction, it is deceit and if it turns in the right direction, it will get one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. — Valentine de Saint-Point Copy Share Image
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Only ‘he’, who becomes free from his intellect, can become sarvagna (Omniscient).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
