[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Through what has one seen this (AKRAM) Science (stepless path to liberation)? Through pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture. The point is to praise God with… — Mark A. Noll Copy Share Image
Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Don't make yourself small. Not for anyone. If someone tells you you're too much... too loud, too sensitive, too fierce, too caring,… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The temporal heart resonates at whispers From a Truth overarching Of whose countenance Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such… — William of Ockham Copy Share Image