Body Quote by Marsilio Ficino

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with…

— Edward Thorndike

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

— Susan Sontag

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

“If you try to learn with your intellect, it is more difficult to absorb the teachings on a deep level. The mind looks at…

— Linda Holiday

“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

"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and…

— Kenny Smith

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

— William James

“While the intellect allows us to function with clear knowledge of the physical world the intuition allows us insight into the deeper regions of…

— Sophie Cornish

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

— William Fleming

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

— Averroes

Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti