520 Quotes About Intellect

We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.

We don’t have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.