136 Intellect Quotes for You to Enjoy

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic. Vladimir Horowitz

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. William Golding

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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now. Aaron Sorkin

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People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything. Alice Walker

People Problem Submission Everything Had Intellect Lovers Really Choice

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped. Andris Nelsons

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I prefer intellect and charm. Angie Everhart

Charm Intellect Prefer

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that. Ant Middleton

Nine Extreme Out Ten Fail Learn Intellect Times

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Augustus Hare

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged. Ben Fountain

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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. Betty Williams

Work Love Needs Peace Compassion Important Cold Intuition More Powerful Calling Intellect Than Often Far Forth Reason

Faith is the heroism of the intellect. Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith Heroism Intellect

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. Charles Sumner

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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. Daniel Keys Moran

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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. David Hilbert

Man Other Clarification Spirit Idea Concept Greater Stimulated His Intellect Question Than Infinite Moved Stands Ever Profoundly Need

As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion. David Ignatius

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The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. Edward Levi

Commitment Power Way Intellect Itself Dedicated Reason University

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. Edward Thorndike

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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. Erica Jong

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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. Ernest Newman

Intelligence Voice Higher Smaller Intellect

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music Soul Does Intellect Just Just As Much Movement Much Body

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. Eva Mendes

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? Evangelista Torricelli

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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace. F. Murray Abraham

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