Intellect Quotes

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

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.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.