Accounts Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 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

"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

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the…

— Ram Dass

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

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize…

— Dean Koontz

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Oscar Wilde

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

— Ilka Chase

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 human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its…

— Moses Harvey