Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

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

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

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

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

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

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.

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

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

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

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

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

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 pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

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

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

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

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

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

[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.

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

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

True success depends more on character than on intellect.