Quotes About Intellect

A strong ,intellectually sound person is like a steel rebar that looks hard and tough from outside but inside in the core remains relatively soft and ductile.

A superior intellect & sensitive person is not often as comfortable and confident in public as the mediocre minds and/or bumptious people because he thoroughly knows that some will hate his understanding points sheer out of their jealousy, and others particularly duffers' will discuss and debate about his points mere out of their level of understanding to put the basics out of context.

God has a unique way of balancing out His gift to the people because a man with a strong intellect often has a weak body physique and vice versa.

Mentally-weak people can show own strength by being always part of the crowd; Intellectually-strong person could view that own power lies only by standing outside the queue.

The difference between a Thought and a Proverb is that anything said by anyone is a Thought, which even upon not being intellectually worthy can be foolishly or selfishly admired by many people especially when the speaker is financially wealthy; but if a person's quote has got wisdom a lot for the whole world and endorsed or sought by sage minds only, then it becomes a Proverb.

The more a person is intellectually sound, the less the number of people around him in support is always found.

The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

La intuición y no el intelecto es el «ábrete sésamo» a tu interior.   ALBERT EINSTEIN

Earth: grounding, abundance; receptive and passive • Air: communication, intellect; projective and active • Fire: passion, creativity; projective and active • Water: emotion, sensitivity; receptive and passive

All men desire to know

The soul can not think without a picture.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Freud asserts that "when a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and, even so, overlook the contradictions before them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect.

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.