Quotes About Intellect

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Equality has no place for genius.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.