Intellect Quotes

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of… — Karl Marx
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from… — Carson McCullers
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. — Bryant H. McGill
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. — Alan Moore
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. — Guru Nanak
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. — Ernest Newman
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening -… — Arnold Palmer
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. — John Ruskin
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought… — Jerry Saltz
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. — Friedrich Schiller
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. — Herbert Spencer
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep… — Lysander Spooner
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for… — Patrick Stewart
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding… — Serj Tankian
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability… — Edward Thorndike
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims,… — Edward Thorndike
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted… — Anthony Trollope

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