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Intellect Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too…
- To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
- I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
- Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
- Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the…
More Intellect Quotes
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
- The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination… — Annie Besant
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born
- If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business,… — Ray Bradbury
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey
- Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has… — Gary Busey