Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex. — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James Copy Share Image
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals;… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart Copy Share Image
Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
“There are many different kinds of knowledge. The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in a more trustworthy way… — Lakota Sioux Buck Ghosthorse Copy Share Image
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations… — Shirley Bassey Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters. — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image