Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

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.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

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

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

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.

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

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.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

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.

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

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

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.

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 really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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.

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

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

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 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.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

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

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]