Intellect Quotes

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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. Youâ€™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
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
â€¦to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellectâ€¦ — 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

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