Intellect Quotes

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved… — Oscar Wilde
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.… — Oscar Wilde
‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant… — Rick Yancey
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--… — William Styron
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I… — Rene Descartes
Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
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
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. — Oswald Spengler
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With… — Loretta Chase
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not… — Marc Bekoff
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and… — H.G. Wells
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the… — Leo Tolstoy
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is… — Fulton J. Sheen
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even… — Bertrand Russell
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. — E. M. Forster
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught, my friend. You… — Lisa Kleypas
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It… — Mahatma Gandhi
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the… — Nancy Pearcey

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