520 Quotes About Intellect

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

Books, intellect, facts - all these are mere dust in front of love.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

Ain't Good People (The Sonnet)Ain't no good people we,If goodness means blindness.Ain't no practical folks we,If practicality means selfishness.Ain't no sane citizens we,If sanity means indifference.Ain't no smart bunch we,If smartness brings arrogance.Ain't no articulate minds we,If articulation means mindless accuracy.Ain't no civilized society we,If civilization means hypocrisy.We are the force capable of mastering a planet.Let's live not as machines but conscience incarnate.

we may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.