Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critical to make it meaningful, to make it transformative.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Action is bondage in itself. Action is not needed to attain moksha (liberation). Gnan kriya (activity of the Self to See and Know) is required for moksha. Agnan kriya (Activity of the non-Self) is bondage. Activities done with egoism is called Agnan kriya, and activities done without egoism is called Gnan kriya.

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.

Agna (energy and power of worldly intellect) will not let one get out of worldly life, and pragna (light of the Pure Soul) will not leave you until it takes you to moksha (ultimate liberation).

A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.

Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw the largest audiences and the biggest response. Workers in the field of educational radio are loath to acknowledge this truism, maintaining that certain programs must be built to appeal to the intellect. Of course, they are right, but that is the minority appeal.

Agna (energy and power of worldly intellect) is of worldly interaction, and pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul) is for moksha.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But a towering magnetic presence, filling the air about with light, warmth, inspiration. A great intellect, penetrating, in ways (on his field) the best of our time — to be long kept, cherished, passed on... It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is 'Leaves of Grass.' He lives, embodies, the individuality I preach. 'Leaves of Grass' utters individuality, the most extreme, uncompromising. I see in Bob the noblest specimen —American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light. {Whitman's thought on his good friend, the great Robert Ingersoll}