Intellect Quotes · Page 28

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

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce…

— John Jay Chapman

“God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No…

— Stefan Zweig

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.”

— Patricia Fripp

“Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.”

— Dan Brown

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Whether the individual fights this battle in ways such that men call him good or such that they call him evil is…

— Nietzche

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest…

— Rumi

My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not…

— Kim Harrison

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of…

— Charles Darwin

“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn…

— H.L. Mencken

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered…

— Giacomo Casanova

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather…

— Gregory B. Sadler

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.…

— Fritjof Capra

We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,…

— Linus Pauling

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an…

— Ram Dass

The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks…

— Peter Adamson

"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being;…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they…

— Campbell Scott

We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and…

— Jacques Barzun

He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination…

— Maximus the Confessor

“Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.”

— Ted Orland

“Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument…

— Bryant McGill

“Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.”

— Suzy Kassem

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these…

— Baruch Spinoza

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

— Albert Rosenfeld

Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

— Zeno Vendler

“If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.”

— George Eliot

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

— Thomas Dubay

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect…

— Bertrand Russell

“While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

— Wade Barrett