Intellect Quotes

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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling… — Gary Zukav
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.… — J M Coetzee
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much… — W L George
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of… — Charles Darwin
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he… — A. E. Housman
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he… — Rajneesh
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect confuses intuition. — Piet Mondrian
If I think, I am lost. — Paul Cezanne
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy… — Henri Matisse
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… — Camille Paglia
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such… — Wyndham Lewis
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,… — Fritjof Capra
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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