Intellect Quotes · Page 4

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

— Ilka Chase

“Don't let your intellect trump your faith!”

— Bishop Yvette Flunder

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

— Stephen Fry

“One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.”

— George Orwell

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

— Jean Stafford

“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness”

— Aristotle

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

— Steve Jobs

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

— Solanus Casey

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and…

— Henry Czerny

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

— Carl Jung

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

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

— Margot Asquith

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

— Allen W. Wood

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

— Emily Dickinson

“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does…

— Robert Ingersoll

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what…

— James Gunn

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is…

— Glenn Greenwald

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet…

— David Hilbert

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have…

— Henry Giroux

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution…

— William E. Gladstone

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

“Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind…

— William James

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and…

— Thomas Mann

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is…

— Chanakya

Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul.…

— Peter Adamson

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

— Victor Hugo

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

— David Lindsay

“In modeling, the colour of a man’s teeth is more important than his IQ.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I find no intellect comparable to my own

— Margaret Fuller

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

— Alanis Morissette

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

— Shirley Jackson

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

— Anthony John Patrick Kenny