Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

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

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

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.

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

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

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

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

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

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

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

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

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

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

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.