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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.
If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.
A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer
I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.