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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination — Henry David Thoreau

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself — A.S. Neill

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand. — Sivananda

The intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. — William James

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. — Oscar Wilde

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis De Tocqueville

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard. — Confucius

Develop your intellect and your creative ways of thinking — Sunday Adelaja

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find — W.B.Yeats

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. — Temple Grandin

Do they really think that a limited intellect means a child can't feel viciousness in a person's touch or hear anger in the tone of their voice? — Martin Pistorius

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography — Anthony Esolen

Soul and intellect are just the same things. — Democritus

How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling. — Graham Swift

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. — Antonio Gramsci

I'm going to take myself somewhere my intellect is appreciated. Xbox Live. Goodnight, ladies. — Tessa Bailey

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world. — Suzanne Vega

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness. — Nasir-i Khusraw

Your brain is not your friend when you need to apologize. Your brain and your ego and your intellect all remind you of the facts. — Amy Poehler

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility. — Russell M. Nelson

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. — Emily Dickinson

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect; it causes harm. — Dada Bhagwan

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. — Dada Bhagwan

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy. — Ayn Rand

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Undecided thoughts' is called the mind. 'Decided thoughts' is called the intellect. — Dada Bhagwan

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. — Eugenie De Guerin

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal. — Subramanya Bharathi

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are. — Dada Bhagwan

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall

America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not? — Olga Kurylenko

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself. — Albert Einstein

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be. — Flannery O'Connor

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. — Samuel Johnson

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. — Edward Abbey

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas. — Cynthia Ozick

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious. — Alfred Bester

For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life. — Nicholas Of Cusa

If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened. — Mark Hart

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing. — Ilka Chase

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. — William Ralph Inge

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair. — Tom Shales

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. — T. Geronimo Johnson

our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors - either amateur or professional - truly understand this critical point. — Guy Spier

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior. — Ravi Zacharias

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. — Felix Adler

Judging the intellect of others where comprehension is lacking, is like a mutt judging the groom of Best in Show. — S.P. Mount

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel. — H.P. Lovecraft

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches. — Shirley Bassey

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself. — Narissa Doumani

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. — Plato

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. — Jean De La Bruyere

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

Only 'he', who becomes free from his intellect (abudha), can become Omniscient (sarvagna). — Dada Bhagwan

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment. — Alfred North Whitehead

To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. — Donna Leon

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body. — Daniel D. Palmer

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. — Jack Schmitt

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom. — Henry Mintzberg

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect. — Lois Greiman

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect. — Frederick Lenz

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. — Emma Goldman

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart — B.K.S. Iyengar

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a tragic and annihilating war, in which intellect fought naked with intellect, and the blows fell not upon the mind but upon the soul. — Dorothy Dunnett

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us go. — Oswald Chambers

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it. — Bryant McGill

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use. — Sri Aurobindo

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. — Ingmar Bergman

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. — John Adams

Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex. — Siobhan Fahey