Intellect Quotes

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair. — Carl Jung
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. — Unknown Author
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault
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
In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of… — Sivananda
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly… — Albert Einstein
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. — Saadi
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and… — Margot Asquith
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. — Alfred North Whitehead
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. — Unknown Author
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge… — Susan Sontag
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her;… — Arnold Bennett
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant
Your choice of armor was your intellect. — Alanis Morissette
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's… — Donna Leon

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