Intellect Quotes
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An pretend and evil friend is haughty to be feared than a unmanageable beast; a unmanageable beast may mouthful your build up, but an evil friend fortitude mouthful your intellect.
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The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.
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To Aquinas the intellect stands at the summit of ... the human soul.
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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.
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Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.
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The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.
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Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.
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I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.
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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.
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Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
