Quotes about Intellect

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Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge a — Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive wor — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain, The Diary of Adam and Eve
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am — Albert Camus
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose compos — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others co — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
I only know that I know nothing — Socrates
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, — Arthur Schopenhauer
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. — Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Ideas are the source of all things — Plato
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are cor — Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday. — Shannon L. Alder
Brahman is the ultimate reality — it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna
What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn r — Daniel J. Flynn, Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up. — Marty Rubin
The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to t — Arthur Schopenhauer
Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cogniza — O.Z. Napaeae
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Gautama Buddha