Intellect Quotes

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Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people… — Ray Manzarek
Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine. — Robert Musil
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of… — Madeleine L'Engle
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.… — Alfred North Whitehead
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless… — Matthew Simpson
Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect. — George Pendle
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. — Sigmund Freud
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. — Stephen Fry
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. — John Kenneth Galbraith
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we… — Jane Goodall
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. — Temple Grandin
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him. — Maureen Dowd
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. — Clint Eastwood
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. — Roger Ebert
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. — Albert Einstein
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have. — Paloma Faith
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some… — Henry Ford
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Augustus Hare
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we… — Augustus Hare
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. — Carolina Herrera

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