Discipline Quote by Wendell Phillips

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

— James Russell Lowell

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

— George Sand

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

— Sri Aurobindo

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

— Richard Hofstadter

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

— David Mamet

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand…

— Anonymous

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer