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The intellect is always fooled by the heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. -- Shams Tabrizi
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. -- Augustus Hare
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -- Albert Einstein
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury
Intellect--brain force. -- Friedrich Schiller
Intellect confuses intuition. -- Piet Mondrian
Intellect is not wisdom. -- Thomas Sowell
Intellect is stronger than cannon. -- Theodore Parker
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does. -- Lucille Clifton
Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing. -- Ilka Chase
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious. -- Alfred Bester
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. -- Richard Hofstadter
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege. -- Richard Hofstadter
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power. -- Madame de Stael
Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play. -- Kenny Werner
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. -- Thomas Carlyle
Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. -- Jacques Barzun
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. -- Tariq Ramadan
Intellect in the practice room or studio gives you the tools to use your heart on stage. -- Manny Laureano
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. -- Rumi
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect. -- Aristotle
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. -- Ernest Newman
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. -- Henry David Thoreau
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. -- Roger Ebert
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. -- Carl Jung
Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement. -- Elliot W. Eisner
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. -- Greg Graffin
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. -- Theodore White
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. -- James Russell Lowell
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. -- Albert Einstein
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. -- Paul Valery
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. -- Max Born
It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart. -- Mooji
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
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. -- Galileo Galilei
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. -- Galileo Galilei
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. -- Thomas Carlyle
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. -- Carl Jung
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. -- Jerry Lewis
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. -- Matthew Simpson
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. -- Albert Einstein
People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. -- Alice Walker
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. -- Erica Jong
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. -- Arnold Palmer
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively. -- Kirk Cameron
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. -- Lydia M. Child
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. -- Lev Vygotsky
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. -- Peter Ackroyd
Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it. -- Gary Busey
Genius is intellect constructive. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
You have a dizzying intellect. -- William Goldman
Human intellect is incurably abstract. -- C. S. Lewis
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. -- Jim Butcher
Conviction is the conscience of intellect. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The intellect seeks, the heart finds. -- George Sand
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. -- Cary Elwes
Chess is the touchstone of intellect. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My intellect was my greatest vanity. -- Dan Simmons
in intellect there is no sex. -- M. Carey Thomas
God cannot be realized through intellect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The hand that follows intellect can achieve. -- Michelangelo
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. -- George Santayana
Love is the sea where intellect drowns. -- Rumi
Clothes form the intellect of the dandy. -- Josh Billings
Your choice of armor was your intellect. -- Alanis Morissette
Nature has thorns; I gnash my intellect. -- Brett J. Anderson
Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Faith is the heroism of the intellect. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
I find no intellect comparable to my own -- Margaret Fuller
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom. -- Meher Baba
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together. -- Hugh MacDiarmid
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Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect. -- Hans Asperger
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. -- Edward Abbey
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism -- Muhammad Iqbal
Soul and intellect are just the same things. -- Democritus
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect. -- Robert Penn Warren
The intellect must be different from the soul. -- Peter Adamson
Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect. -- Shirley Jackson
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. -- Ayn Rand
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. -- William James
Will and intellect are one and the same thing. -- Baruch Spinoza
True success depends more on character than on intellect. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She was short on intellect, but long on shape. -- George Ade
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. -- Temple Grandin
Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art. -- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire. -- Mason Cooley
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. -- Alan Moore
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right -- Ibn Khaldun
If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened. -- Mark Hart
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. -- Horace Porter
Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education. -- Paul Delaroche
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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