Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

I am my brain's publisher.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

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

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Intellect confuses intuition.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.