Quotes About Intellect

Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.

what cannot be understood by the human intellect need not be feared because it ultimately comes from God.

Become a master of your intellect as a charioteer masters his horses and you will realize it is not about the war, it is not about fighting or not fighting, it is not about winning or losing, but it is about taking decisions and discovering the truth about yourself. When you do this, there will be no fear, there will be no ego; you will be at peace, even in the midst of what the deluded call war.

Your intellect can choose how to react to a particular stimulation. Often, there is so much conditioning, there is little thought between stimulation and reaction. But the option exists.

Insulting the other destroys the other's emotional body; praising oneself destroys one's intellectual body.

Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

There should always be a harmonious combination of the senses and the intellect.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

It's such a burden to have to pull off smart...

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.