Intellect Quotes
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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
William Blake -
Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
Eric Maisel
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.
Hans Arp -
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud -
If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
In both the mystical and the paranormal there seems to be a kind of direct knowing, not mediated by the usual routines of the intellect. In both a kind of shift of consciousness occurs, a kind of turning inward that reveals another world.
Gary Lachman Blondie -
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.
Austin Farrer
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Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.
Newell Dwight Hillis -
A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life.
Alexander Lowen -
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.
Donald Miller -
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
William Styron -
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
Aristotle
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound -
A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.
Al-Farabi -
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
Henry Ward Beecher -
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
William Wordsworth -
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart...only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood.
Alexander Clark
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...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
Hermann Hesse -
The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.
Lev Vygotsky -
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
Edgar Allan Poe