Intellect Quotes

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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to… — Agatha Christie
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character,… — Anna Quindlen
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to… — John Stuart Mill
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect… — Marcel Proust
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for… — Anais Nin
…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect… — Fernando Pessoa
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the… — Oscar Wilde
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would… — Rene Descartes
...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a… — Karen Marie Moning
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses… — George Orwell
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these… — Parker J. Palmer
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens
My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. “It’s a… — Kim Harrison
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect… — P.G. Wodehouse
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal… — Jo Nesbo
How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses… — Watchman Nee
To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is… — Thomas Mann
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. — Idries Shah
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s… — Richard Matheson
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter… — Anne Rice

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