Quotes about Intellect

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

Man may think human intellect and reasoning are almighty, that the brain is able to comprehend all truths of the world; but the verdict of God's Word is, "vanity of vanities.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

[Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

What we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars. I've talked to a lot of the generals, a lot of our advanced people. And believe me, if we gave them the mission, which is what the commander-in-chief does, they would be able to carry it out.

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.

All men desire by nature to know.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.