Intellect Quotes

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

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

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

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

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

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

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

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

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

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

I am my brain's publisher.

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

Intellect is not wisdom.

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

Intellect confuses intuition.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

Great intellects are skeptical.

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

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

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.