520 Quotes About Intellect

What does she need with architecture?”“The same thing my mother needed with eight languages,” I replied boldly. “She commanded the best diplomats in the world, but she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Those who defy logic and reason slip only into disreality.

The superior weapon of choice to fight ineffective, unwarranted distrust and fear, is a commitment to believing in others, coupled with a charitable heart; it is then that logic and intellect can be most successfully employed to deal with such negative emotions.

Being labeled as a fool, has its own advantages, because you are yourself, real, authentic and the society demands intellect in you, why boast which you aren't......actually they should appreciate your true self!” 

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.