Intellect Quotes

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To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use. — Sri Aurobindo
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to… — Ibn Khaldun
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. — Luciano Berio
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a… — Leslie Stephen
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. — Edward Thorndike
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. — Matthew Simpson
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for… — William Gilmore Simms
MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had… — Loretta Swit
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain
The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that… — Teresa of Avila
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form… — Charles Kingsley
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most… — William E. Gladstone
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to… — William James
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the… — Swami Vivekananda
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right — Ibn Khaldun
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses… — Jane Roberts
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville

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