Intellect Quotes

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which… — Garry Kasparov
Soul and intellect are just the same things. — Democritus
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain… — Edgar Allan Poe
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether… — James Weldon Johnson
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me… — Evangelista Torricelli
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only… — Georg Simmel
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially… — Kenny Smith
Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings… — Kenny Smith
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. — Richard Avedon
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It… — Jerome K. Jerome
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live. — Spotted Tail
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your… — Annie Dillard
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces… — Fred Hoyle
Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect. — Gary Zukav
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after… — Seneca the Younger
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square? — William Wordsworth
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with… — Ruth Bernhard
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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