(112 quotes found)
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
Felix Adler
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.”
Camille Paglia
“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
Samuel Johnson
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.”
Tom Shales
“Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.”
David Lindsay
“I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Intellectuals can debate. Idiots just argue.”
Dani Reynolds
