Intellect quotes

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. Tadao Ando
(also about
Beauty)

Intellect quotes by Albert Einstein

Also about
Education, Understanding, School, Genius, Character
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson
(also about
Books, Reading)
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds. Sigmund Freud
(also about
Instinct)

Intellect quotes by Stephen Hawking

Also about
Intelligence, Science, Body, Freedom, Search
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
(also about
Intelligence)
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. Niccolo Machiavelli
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. John Malkovich
I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference. Charles Darwin
(also about
Work, Animals, People)
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought. Annie Lennox
(also about
Music)
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. Paramahansa Yogananda
(also about
Education, Vanity, Satisfaction, Learning)
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing... not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. Erich Maria Remarque
(also about
War, Army, Manipulation, Spirit)
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. David Lynch
(also about
Inspiration, Intuition, Knowledge)
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. Francis Bacon
(also about
Learning)
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought. Stendhal
(also about
Love, Spirit)
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf
(also about
Intelligence)
My brain, I believe, is the most beautiful part of my body. Shakira
(also about
Beauty, Body, Brain)
Men are governed by lines of intellect, women - by curves of emotion. James Joyce
(also about
Emotions, Women, Men)
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. Joanne Rowling
(also about
Books, Foolishness, Genius, Personality)
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. Dmitri Mendeleev
(also about
Inspiration, Ability, Mind, Opportunity, Curiosity)
Mankind lives by its head
Its head won't see him through
Inspect your own. What lives off that?
At most a louse or two. Bertolt Brecht
(also about
Humour, Mind, Thinking)

Intellect quotes by Charles Bukowski

Also about
Art, Simplicity, Insanity, Mind, Soul, Mediocrity
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
Some lose both and become accepted.
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. Kurt Vonnegut
(also about
Humour, Stupidity, Brain)

Intellect quotes by Thomas Mann

Also about
Health, Prejudice, Stupidity, Disease
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. Harper Lee
(also about
People, Knowledge)
An intellectual hatred is the worst William Butler Yeats
(also about
Hatred)