Quotes about Intellect
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
- William Wordsworth
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
- Charles Colson
[Science is] the desire to know causes.
- William Hazlitt
I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
- William Hazlitt
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
- Josh McDowell
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
- Abraham Kuyper
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
- CS Lewis
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
- Anais Nin