520 Quotes About Intellect

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk.

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Ego is considered one’s own wealth. Profit or loss of endless lifetimes comes into ego. Whatever is one’s ego, that is how his medium will be and that is the kind of light of his intellect he will continue to get. If his merit karma (punya) is high, his buddhi (intellect) will be high.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.