Intellect Quotes

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There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect. — Slick Rick
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height; and when we… — Maximus the Confessor
Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect. — Maximus the Confessor
When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely… — Maximus the Confessor
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple… — Maximus the Confessor
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with… — Maximus the Confessor
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light… — Maximus the Confessor
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. — Denise Mina
To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two… — Muhammad Abduh
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec
Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is… — S. J. Perelman
Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal… — Michael Faraday
Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body. — Daniel D. Palmer
[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding… — Adolf Hitler
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. — Edward H. Levi
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's… — Henry Czerny
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from… — F. Murray Abraham
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,… — Peter Ackroyd
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. — Tadao Ando

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