Function Quote by William James

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

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul,

— Robert Musil

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

— Louise Wilson

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

— Freeman Dyson

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

— George Berkeley

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

— Byron Katie

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve,…

— Alan Garner

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

— William Wordsworth