Common sense Quote by Nicole Hill

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

— G. H. Hardy

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

— Anonymous

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

— Richard Hofstadter

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

— Sri Aurobindo

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common…

— Jerry Lewis

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

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

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

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

— William James