Quotes About Intellect

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

I am not a fan of books.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

The buddhi [intellect] is today's gain, it is today's experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature's gift!

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.