Intellect Quotes · Page 9

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

— Angie Everhart

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

— Anonymous

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

— Michelangelo

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

— Carl von Clausewitz

I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

— Michael Vick

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

— Sándor Márai

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”

— Anonymous

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

— Eric Weiner

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

— Daniel Goleman

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,…

— John Ruskin

“There is no division, in practice, between work and life. [An intellectual craft] is a practice that involves the whole person, continually…

— Tim Ingold

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…

— G. H. Hardy

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

— Hermann Hesse

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you,…

— John Cleese

“The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a…

— Peter Travers

If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while,…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty,…

— Oscar Wilde

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition…

— Terence McKenna

Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you…

— Ann Mortifee

“He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual…

— Oscar Wilde

“Antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is not made up of four separate parts, it is one. But it…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute…

— Maximus the Confessor

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

— Allen Tate

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognize its limits

— Anonymous

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

— Peter Abelard

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

— Carolina Herrera