Connected Quote by Pitirim Sorokin

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

— James Russell Lowell

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

— Henry David Thoreau

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

— Ernest Holmes

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

— Richard Hofstadter

The intellect must be different from the soul.

— Peter Adamson

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

— Madame de Stael

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

— Dean Koontz

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching…

— Wilfred Trotter

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

— Madame de Stael