(112 quotes found)
“In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”
Charles Henry Parkhurst
“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development”
Oscar Wilde
“Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things. . .”
“World is abundant.Intellect is redundant.”
Rushi Prabhakar
“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.”
Galileo Galilei
“It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling”
Bertrand Russell
“All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.”
Bhagavad Gita
“The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought.”
Friedrich Engels
