Quotes on Intellect

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

Author: Henri Bergson

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.

Author: Steven Bochco

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

Author: Uwe Boll

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

Author: Max Born

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.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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.

Author: Ralph Cudworth

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

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

Author: Temple Grandin

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

Author: Carl Jung

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.

Author: Charles Lamb

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

Author: Bryant McGill

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

Author: Lennart Meri

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

Author: Guru Nanak

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Author: Ernest Newman

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Author: Horace Porter

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Author: Ernestine Rose

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

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Author: Michael Servetus

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Author: Sydney Smith

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Author: Baruch Spinoza

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

Author: Paul Valery

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Author: Oscar Wilde

In the pursuit of knowledge, one finds truth in unexpected places.

Author: Serena Lee

Wisdom is not always found in the minds of the intellectuals, sometimes it resides in the heart of the common folk.

Author: Sofia Martinez