Intellect Quotes

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of… — Victor Hugo
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. — Daniel Keys Moran
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect. — Ambrose Bierce
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart. — David Lloyd-Jones
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will… — Aristotle
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice… — Laozi
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let… — Jim Rohn
Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect,… — David Foster Wallace
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the… — Camille Paglia
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an… — Friedrich Schiller
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in… — Friedrich Schiller
It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned… — Carl von Clausewitz
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life. — Leonard Ravenhill
Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well… — David Corbett
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets… — Jeremy Begbie
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses. — Michael Servetus
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That… — Ingmar Bergman
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is… — Thomas Huxley
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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