Intellect Quotes

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We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in… — Sigmund Freud
All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent. — Mahatma Gandhi
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time… — Richard Dawkins
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh — James Joyce
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. — Oscar Wilde
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom… — John O'Donohue
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.… — Dean Koontz
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled… — Thomas Mann
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the… — Albert Einstein
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the… — Michael Cunningham
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose… — John Milton
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the… — Oscar Wilde
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but… — Erich Maria Remarque
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with… — Michio Kaku
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions… — Sam Savage
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can… — Denis Johnson
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later — Unknown Author
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and… — Scott Hahn

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