520 Quotes About Intellect

I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect.

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

The sign of wisdom is to have more questions than answers.

How can we call anyone’s view point as being wrong? Can we tell a blind man off if he bumps into a wall? Hey, he bumped into the wall because he was blind.

Some kind of mistake is remaining (within us) due to which conflicts are being created (by us). It is not as if only the Gnan (right knowledge) can destroy conflicts; they can be removed even through the intellect (buddhi).

Antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is exactly like a parliament. In that ego is the president, intellect is the prime minister, chit is the foreign department, and mind is the home department.

Ego has given rise to the bhedbuddhi (divisive intellect) within the Self (Soul). That is the impediment of it.