Intellect Quotes
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
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.
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
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.
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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.
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
