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The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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

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.

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

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

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

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

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

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

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