Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Intellect

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

Dada Bhagwan

#Amount #Intellect #Silence #Spiritual

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Raheel Farooq

#Emotions #Heart #Intellect #Life

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

#curiosity #intellect #wisdom #learning

Curiosity is the essence of intellectual life.

John Adams

#curiosity #intellect #learning #wisdom

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

#knowledge #wisdom #growth #learning

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

George Eliot

#Greatness #Intellect

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

#Education

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#Inspirational #Witty #Truth

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine.

Raheel Farooq

#Action #Character #Imagination #Inspiration

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

#Determination #Intellect #Life lessons #Reality

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.

Dada Bhagwan

#Function of intellect #Loss #Profit #Profit loss

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Creed #Creeds #Disease #Freethought

Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.

Dada Bhagwan

#Fault #Faults #Intellect #Spiritual

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Oscar Wilde

#Beauty #Enemies #Friends #Intellect

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant

#Brilliance #Education #Genius #Independent

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#Conscious #Disease #Fyodor dostoyevsky #Illness

The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.

A.E. Samaan

#Intellect #Knowledgeable #Smart #Wisdom

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Discovery #Exploration #Intellect #Knowledge

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#Hard work #Intellect #Nature vs nurture #Talent

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

Raheel Farooq

#Epistemology #Intellect #Intuition #Knowledge

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

Tim Fargo

#Answer #Answering #Answers #Careful

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#Conclusion #Delay #General semantics #Humility