Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

— Oscar Wilde

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen…

— Baruch Spinoza

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the…

— George Carlin

Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage.

— Manny Laureano

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is…

— Lucretius

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a…

— Leora Tanenbaum

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the…

— George MacDonald

... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are many different kinds of knowledge. The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in a more trustworthy way than the…

— Lakota Sioux Buck Ghosthorse

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and…

— Raymond Cattell

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius…

— Matshona Dhliwayo