Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the…

“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten…

— Imre Lakatos

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

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five…

— Thomas Dubay

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence…

— Chauncey Wright

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the…

— Albert Pike

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films.…

— Tim Cahill

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“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