Intellect Quotes

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Genius attracts more hate than love and more disrespect than respect; at least for the first few hundred years. — Steve Fowler
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power. — Madame de Stael
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which… — Swami Vivekananda
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater… — Swami Vivekananda
Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end. — Swami Vivekananda
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache… — Louis L'Amour
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy
These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda
The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles. — Swami Vivekananda
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in… — Leonardo da Vinci
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are… — Tom Regan
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and… — Nahmanides
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art… — George Inness
I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect. — Lena Dunham
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities… — Ellen G. White
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be… — Unknown Author
There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith… — Frederick William Robertson
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and… — Mooji

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