520 Quotes About Intellect

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

I would rather lose my intellect than my humility.

We don’t define faith as an intellectual exercise where we either make ourselves believe (which is make-believe), or else we interpret the physical evidence while “holding to the right presuppositions.

Will we follow God or human intellect? Will we worship God or human intellect? Will we listen to God or human intellect? Which one will we bow to?

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

We sometimes pretend to agree with a statement, as an attempt to hide the fact that we are not smart enough to understand it.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate.