Quotes About Intellect

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence

the usual limits of understanding another's mind are compounded when trying to understand Lowell, a man who thought in metaphor, lived in history, and whose mind was engaged in a restless, stupendously elaborate game of three-dimensional chess. Lowell's mind was of a lurching, revising originality.

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

It's not faith you need. Only rationality

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

The mind is the most powerful sense.

Soul and mind are the powers of mankind

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Endowed with a clear intellect, warm in affection, and confiding in friendship, he was from the boyhood devoted heart and soul to the Prophet. Simple, quiet, and unambitious, when in after days he obtained the rule of half of the Moslem world, it was rather thrust upon him than sought

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

The bookish theoric.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

In treading upon the ashes of dead men in Italy, Egypt - on the banks of the Bosphorus, one almost despairs to think how idle are the dreams and toils of this life, and were it not for the intellectual pleasure of knowing and learning, one would almost be damaged by travel in these historic lands.