Intellect Quotes · Page 25

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to…

— Shirin Ebadi

Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey.…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And…

— Erica Jong

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving…

— Barbara Mandrell

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns…

— Gerald Heaney

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

— Deepak Chopra

[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda…

— Adolf Hitler

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right…

— Wallace D. Wattles

So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a…

— Peter Travers

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

— Craig Ferguson

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to…

— William Styron

...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better…

— Austin Farrer

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what…

— Albert Einstein

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as…

— Edward Thorndike

The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination…

— Annie Besant

“When is Gnan said to have manifested? When a state of non-attachment (vitragta) arises. When does vitragta arise? When intellect goes away(diminishes)..”

— Dada Bhagwan

Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only…

— Swami Vivekananda

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know…

— George Lucas

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

— Jean de la Bruyere

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities…

— Edward Hopper

Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient…

— Lydia M. Child