“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.” — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Particular honour belongs to those who believed in the possibility of mechanical flight when all the world was against them; not the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“When circumstantial evidences come together, the mind gets involved in thoughts. The one that has the thoughts is the mind. At that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body. — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy. — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Darwin stated: “For I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard… — FastReads Copy Share Image
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
