Best 499 quotes in «intellect quotes» category

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

Great intellects are skeptical.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

I am my brain's publisher.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

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

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.