Intellect Quotes
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The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Quote by - William Falconer)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
'Tis good-will makes intelligence. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. (Quote by - Mike Brearley)
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction. (Quote by - E. F.Schumacker)
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. (Quote by - Arthur Bloch)
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way! (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. (Quote by - Henri Louis Bergson)
The brain is the citadel of sense perception. (Quote by - Pliny the Elder)
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. (Quote by - Karl Von Clausewitz)
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good. (Quote by - George Sand)
The hand that follows intellect can achieve. (Quote by - Michelangelo Buonarotti)
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. (Quote by - Theodore H. White)
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men. (Quote by - John Lukacs)
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. (Quote by - Isaac Singer)
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Thou living ray of intellectual fire. (Quote by - William Falconer)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (Quote by - F Scott Fitzgerald)
Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. (Quote by - Attributed to the Rev. Denny Brake)
Will and intellect are one and the same thing. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. (Quote by - Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever, is dumb. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba Quotes)
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism. (Quote by - Arthur R. M. Lower)
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Golf has drawbacks. It is possible, by too much of it, to destroy the mind... Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. (Quote by - Walter Simpson)
The heart is wiser than the intellect. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. (Quote by - Alec Guinness)
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! (Quote by - William James)
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
For the eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. (Quote by - Henri Louis Bergson)
