Intellect Quotes

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If I think, I am lost. — Paul Cezanne
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy… — Henri Matisse
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… — Camille Paglia
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such… — Wyndham Lewis
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. — Mark Twain
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect… — Edward Abbey
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like… — Swami Vivekananda
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more… — Betty Williams
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole

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