Intellect Quotes

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

~ James Rozoff

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

~ Immanuel Kant

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

~ Victor Hugo

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

~ Andrew Bernstein

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.

~ Gregory B. Sadler

I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future. We are rearing up a brood of crafty egoists, a generation whose earliest recollections are those of getting something for nothing from the State.I am inclined to trace our present social unrest to this over-valuation of the intellect. It hardens the heart and blights all generous impulses. What is going to replace the home, Mr. Keith?

~ Norman Douglas

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

~ H.l. Mencken

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

~ Christian Ekström

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

~ Leora Tanenbaum

Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality.

~ Kristie Levangie

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

~ Joseph Alois Schumpeter

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!

~ Anuranjita Kumar

Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw the largest audiences and the biggest response. Workers in the field of educational radio are loath to acknowledge this truism, maintaining that certain programs must be built to appeal to the intellect. Of course, they are right, but that is the minority appeal.

~ Judith C. Waller

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior. Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

~ Dignity

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

~ Tim Fargo

The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

~ Chris Campanioni

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.

~ Connie Kerbs

Intellect is not speaking and logicising, it is seeing and ascertaining.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

~ Raheel Farooq

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

~ Jacques Maritain

Block of wood, gives you a big bunch of paper, but it doesn't make it worthy as a piece of mind on single paper.

~ Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

~ Daniel Keyes

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

~ Sorin Suciu

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

~ Larry Kramer

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

~ Idries Shah

Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then ‘right’ for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.

~ Daniel Friedmann