Intellect Quotes
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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
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The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his aroused passions, of his devotion, of all the higher moods and temperaments of his mind.
George Gilfillan
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That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.
Hedy Lamarr
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Cary Elwes
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
John Ruskin
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Thomas Eakins
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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.
Ezra Miller
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
James Anthony Froude
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Free of distraction, free of clinging, free of meditation. Beyond intellect: Remain in the state beyond intellect. Great Perfection. Selfless, unborn, free of extremes,
inexpressible.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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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.
Hermann Hesse
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
