Intellect Quotes · Page 4

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

— Sophie Swetchine

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

— Swami Vivekananda

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

— Paul Johnson

“Haiku: Intellectual Property is worth ten times More than you may think.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

— Anonymous

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

— Leo Tolstoy

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

— Eugenie de Guerin

Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumours don't define who you are.

— Anonymous

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

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

— Friedrich Schiller

“I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.”

— E.L. Doctorow

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once…

— Giorgio de Chirico

Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.…

— David Foster Wallace

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed…

— Bertrand Russell

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into…

— Chogyam Trungpa

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my…

— Anne Rice

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

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there…

— George Santayana

“{ Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll , whom he translated into Norwegian } I am very sorry that, when I…

— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much…

— Stephen Covey

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but…

— Rajneesh

This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about…

— Rene Descartes

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to…

— Thomas Huxley

We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the…

— John of Kronstadt

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

— Richard Hofstadter

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

— Kedar Joshi

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

— Hamza Yusuf

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

“Speed is useless without direction. So is intellect.”

— Daniel Wieser

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

— Temple Grandin