520 Quotes About Intellect

Mutual Funds do not allow for your intellectual growth, Stocks do. And in life, wealth always catches up with your intellect

That which harms in the spiritual path (& progress) and benefits the worldly life, it is called deluded intellect (viprit buddhi). And enlightened intellect (samyak buddhi) helps in both, the spiritual as well as worldly realm.

Sadbuddhi (positive intellect which helps in spiritual path & helps in adjustment in worldly life) means that it will not give rise to any contradiction. Sadbuddhi arises when you sit with a Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) for an hour.

...this study, [of rhetoric] properly conducted, leads directly to an acquaintance with ourselves; it not only traces the operations of the intellect and imagination, but discloses the lurking springs of action in the heart.

Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.

The whole world is absorbed in the intellect. Only when one moves away from the intellect and comes into the Light of Knowledge, can one become the absolute Supreme Self (parmatma).

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

Good’ and ‘bad’ (right and wrong) are (thoughts) based on the intellect [buddhi]. Stay away from it and keep anasakatayog [state devoid of attraction/attachment]. What is the nature of the ‘Soul’ (Our Real Self)? ‘Anasakta’ [devoid of attraction/attachment]. ‘You’ also become ‘Anasakta’ by your (inherent) nature.

The mind, intellect and chit are all carrying out their own functions. It is our interference in that. 'Our' does not mean of the Self. There is a wedge of ‘I’ in between these two. Why is egoism present? It is due to the rising of a ‘wrong belief’.