“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Focus and determination beat brains and intellect every time. If you focus on the right things, and work at them often, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.” — Christine Kinealy Copy Share Image
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is… — William James Copy Share Image
“Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) does not leave without [the grace of] the Gnani Purush (the Self-realized One, who… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thank God that it is not a matter of intellect, because if the recognition of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and… — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out. — Michka Assayas Copy Share Image
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later — Bono Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.” — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel Copy Share Image
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Agna (energy and power of worldly intellect) is of worldly interaction, and pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul) is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image