Intellect Quotes

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The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. — Ernest Holmes
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record… — Edward Hopper
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame… — Robert M. Hutchins
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right… — Thomas Huxley
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the… — Daisaku Ikeda
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences… — William James
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us… — Karl Jaspers
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. — Samuel Johnson
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's… — Erica Jong
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. — James Joyce
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with… — Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. — Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. — Carl Jung
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. — John Keats
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. — Charles Krauthammer
There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what… — Ashton Kutcher
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to… — Charles Lamb
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But… — D. H. Lawrence
You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul. — Annie Lennox
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense… — Jerry Lewis
I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician… — Rush Limbaugh
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen… — David Lynch
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat… — John Major

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