X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Intellect" (846)

Page 5 of 36
Filter & Style
Image
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
Image
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.
Adam Gopnik
Image
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin
Image
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Zane Grey
Image
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l-Bahá
Image
Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.
Abdu'l-Bahá
Image
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
Tom Hoover
Image
The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.
Samuel Smiles
Image
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Oswald Spengler
Image
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.
Oswald Chambers
Image
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.
Thomas Merton
Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
William Butler Yeats
Image
The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Image
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.
Thomas Oden
Image
These are facts the heart can feel yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
Albert Camus
Image
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.
Charles Stanley
Image
All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
Hortense Powdermaker
Image
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Chauncey Wright
Image
The education of the intellect is a great business but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.
Edwin Chadwick
Image
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
Image
Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward de Bono
Previous
Next