Intellect Quotes

• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Iron, Acting

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Heart, Errors, Mind

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.61

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

  Sigmund Freud

  Voice, Squash, Doe

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

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• The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Hands, Achieve

  c.1538 Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self- Portrait (1968).

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• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Intelligent, Men

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• The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

  Ernest Newman

  Voice, Intelligence, Higher

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• 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

  Mean, Helping, Shows

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.27, e-artnow

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mountain, Dawn, Firsts

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• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beauty, Broken Heart, Beautiful

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

  Solanus Casey

  Gratitude, Smart, Grateful

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• We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

  William James

  Thinking, Function, Participating

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.669, Simon and Schuster

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• The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Useless Things, Acquisition

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Doors

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

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• The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

  Moses Harvey

  Reality, Study, Results

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• No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017

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• 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

  Mind, Shells, Body

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• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Feelings, Important, Matter

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Men, Long

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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