Intellect Quotes

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

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

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

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

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.