Intellect Quotes - page 2

We know not through our intellect but through our experience. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
You are intellect, I am life! View quote
Margaret Fuller
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin
The intellect seeks, the heart finds. View quote
George Sand
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury)
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. View quote
Carl Jung
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. View quote
Sydney Smith
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect... Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. View quote
Mark Twain
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. View quote
Frank Luntz
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. (Ernest Newman)
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. View quote
Edward Thorndike
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. View quote
Augustus Hare
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. View quote
Harold Brodkey