Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

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

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

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.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

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

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.