Intellect Quotes

• A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Lines
  • Produce
  • Prose

• The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • Heart
  • Intellect
  • Errors

• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Belief
  • Genius
  • Blessing

• I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Real
  • Intellect
  • Transcendental

• Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Studies

• All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Talent
  • Intellect
  • Cramp

• It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • True
  • Intellect
  • Thank God

• Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Music
  • Influence
  • 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.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Spiritual
  • Thought
  • Stimulate

• Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Excellence
  • Intellect
  • Labour

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

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Perception
  • Found
  • Senses

• Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.

  

  Saxby Chambliss
  • Individual
  • Integrity
  • Common

• Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Powerful
  • Intuition
  • Intellect

• As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

  

  Brahmananda Saraswati
  • Heart
  • Intellect
  • Painter

• No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

  

  Winkie Pratney
  • Reason
  • Secret
  • Messages

• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Grace
  • Believing

• If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Intellect
  • Field Of Violence

• A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Energy
  • Failure
  • Persons

• I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Difficult

• I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • School
  • Knowledge
  • Interested

• The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

  

  Allan Kardec
  • Practice
  • Intellect
  • Principle

• Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Consciousness

• Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Art
  • Child
  • Chemistry

• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

  

  Evangelista Torricelli
  • Privilege
  • Construction
  • Geometer

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