Intellect Quotes

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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. — Henry David Thoreau
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. — Nicolas Chamfort
She was short on intellect, but long on shape. — George Ade
When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions… — Sigmund Freud
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing… — John of the Cross
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then… — George Carlin
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller
With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never… — Margaret Fuller
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.… — George Sand
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling… — Gary Zukav
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.… — J M Coetzee
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much… — W L George
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of… — Charles Darwin
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he… — A. E. Housman
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he… — Rajneesh
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect confuses intuition. — Piet Mondrian

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