Intellect Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof…

— John Henry Newman

“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

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

— Pitirim Sorokin

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his…

— Ernst Mach

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also…

— Felix Schelling

“The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative…

— P. M. S. Hacker

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“no matter the acuity of our senses, no matter how educated we are or how good we are or how much conviction we live…

— John Cullinan

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

— Meister Eckhart

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

— Anonymous

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

All things are contrary to a man without discernment But the weapons of perception are wise lips.

— Proverbs 14:7