« All Intellect Quotes · Rumi's Page
Intellect Quotes by Rumi
- He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
- Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
- Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.
More Intellect Quotes
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. — Henri Bergson
- If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey