Intellect Quotes

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. (Margaret Fuller)
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. View quote
Max Born
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. View quote
Max Born
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. View quote
Herbert Spencer
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. View quote
Carl Jung
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. View quote
Antonio Gramsci
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment. View quote
Livy
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. View quote
Galileo Galilei
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. View quote
Albert Einstein
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. View quote
Tadao Ando
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. (Carson McCullers)
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. View quote
Stephen Fry
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle. View quote
Edward Hopper
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. View quote
Roger Ebert