quotes about Intellect
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
-- Alan Moore -
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
-- Alexander Sutherland NeillSource : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1953). “The Free Child”
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It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DeshoulieresSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
-- Arthur SchopenhauerSource : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.18, Cosimo Classics
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
-- AverroesSource : Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
-- Carl Jung -
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
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Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
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Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
-- Daniel Keys Moran -
We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
-- Dore Ashton -
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
-- Doug Stanhope -
I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.
-- Eddie Murphy -
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
-- Ernest Newman -
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It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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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.
-- Francis SchaefferSource : Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press
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Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
-- George PendleSource : Source: www.cnn.com
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Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
-- Hans Asperger -
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
-- Henri Bergson -
The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.
-- Henrietta Szold -
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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
-- Horace PorterSource : "A Bon-Mot in Cleveland Blaine Campaign", (1884), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 610-13, 1922.
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Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.
-- Hugh MacDiarmid -
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
-- J. C. Ryle -
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The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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.
-- John Carmack -
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
-- John Jay ChapmanSource : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated
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It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
-- Karl Kraus -
Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.
-- Kedar Joshi -
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.
-- Ken Gillespie -
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.
-- Lewis TermanSource : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”
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There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.
-- Margot AsquithSource : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”
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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.
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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
-- Mark Twain -
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
-- Mary Elizabeth BraddonSource : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2016). “The Cloven Foot”, p.43, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
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Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
-- Meher Baba -
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
-- Michael Servetus -
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.
-- Michka AssayasSource : Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.92, Penguin
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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
-- Oswald SpenglerSource : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
-- Paul Johnson -
Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
-- R. S. Thomas -
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Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
-- Remy de Gourmont -
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
-- Richard HofstadterSource : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.34, Vintage
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If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
-- Richard Wilhelm -
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I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
-- Ruth Bernhard -
Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.
-- Shirley Jackson -
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
-- Stephen Fry -
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
-- Steve Jobs -
World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.
-- Subramanya Bharathi -
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There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.
-- Thubten Yeshe -
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
-- Warren BuffettSource : U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
-- William Ralph Inge -
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
-- William Wordsworth -
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
-- Abdu'l-Bahá -
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
-- Allen W. Wood -
[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.
-- Anthony John Patrick Kenny -
To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.
-- Zeno Vendler -
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Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
-- Bill Johnson -
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.
-- Nicholas of CusaSource : "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.
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Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.
-- Peter AdamsonSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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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.
-- Peter AdamsonSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.
-- Peter AdamsonSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.
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I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.
-- Simon Munnery