Achievement Quote by Jane Roberts

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

— William James

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure,…

— Edward Thorndike

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

— Louise Wilson

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

— Wallace D. Wattles

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

— Hosea Ballou

“The intellect is a boat which can take us to the very shores of understanding, but once there we must leave it behind in…

— Ashavan

“If the intellect functions in wrong direction, it is deceit and if it turns in the right direction, it will get one’s work done.”

— Dada Bhagwan

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

— Lewis Terman

Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice…

— Herbert Read