Intellect Quotes · Page 13

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

— Nan Goldin

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

— Victor Hugo

“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

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

— David Lindsay

“Intellect has powerful muscles, but no personality.”

— Albert Einstein

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

— Baruch Spinoza

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

— Albert Schweitzer

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

— Rumi

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

— Henry Mintzberg

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

— John K. Fairbank

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

— Guru Nanak

“It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.”

— Amit Kalantri

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

— Dante Alighieri

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value…

— Margot Asquith

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Does a cat not get its food on time? Whereas these people say, "My business is ruined. Now, what will become of…

— Dada Bhagwan

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their…

— Thomas Huxley

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this…

— Peter Adamson

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is.…

— Charles Darwin

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no…

— Townsend Harris

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews,…

— Orison Swett Marden

Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of…

— Louis C. K

“{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I…

— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but…

— Rajneesh

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about…

— Rene Descartes

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to…

— Thomas Huxley

We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the…

— John of Kronstadt

The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited…

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

— Henry David Thoreau

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

— Thomas Carlyle

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

— Samuel Johnson

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

— Fernando Pessoa

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

— Jim Butcher