Intellect Quotes

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

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

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

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

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I am my brain's publisher.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

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

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Intellect confuses intuition.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.