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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 an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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

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

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 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.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your choice of armor was your intellect.

Agna (energy and power of worldly intellect) will not let one get out of worldly life, and pragna (light of the Pure Soul) will not leave you until it takes you to moksha (ultimate liberation).

Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw the largest audiences and the biggest response. Workers in the field of educational radio are loath to acknowledge this truism, maintaining that certain programs must be built to appeal to the intellect. Of course, they are right, but that is the minority appeal.

A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope.

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.

Action is bondage in itself. Action is not needed to attain moksha (liberation). Gnan kriya (activity of the Self to See and Know) is required for moksha. Agnan kriya (Activity of the non-Self) is bondage. Activities done with egoism is called Agnan kriya, and activities done without egoism is called Gnan kriya.

Agna (energy and power of worldly intellect) is of worldly interaction, and pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul) is for moksha.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But a towering magnetic presence, filling the air about with light, warmth, inspiration. A great intellect, penetrating, in ways (on his field) the best of our time — to be long kept, cherished, passed on... It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is 'Leaves of Grass.' He lives, embodies, the individuality I preach. 'Leaves of Grass' utters individuality, the most extreme, uncompromising. I see in Bob the noblest specimen —American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light. {Whitman's thought on his good friend, the great Robert Ingersoll}

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker — no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential.

All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge ‘Knows’ it too.

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

All knowledge, intellectual people should come together at one place and try to bring harmony by means of exchange of thoughts and ideas. When all of them unite they progress rapidly and attain their aims. The external forces cannot harm us in any way.

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move toward rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold,or do not hold, is looked on as matter of indifference. They can me granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.

Antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is exactly like a parliament. In that ego is the president, intellect is the prime minister, chit is the foreign department, and mind is the home department.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.