Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesting is often only indigence of 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.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

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

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

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

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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

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

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.