The march of intellect. [ Southey ]
Intellect - brain force. [ Schiller ]
The starlight of the brain. [ N. P. Willis ]
The electric force of the brain. [ Haliburton ]
Genius is intellect constructive. [ Emerson ]
'Tis goodwill makes intelligence. [ Emerson ]
Faith is the heroism of intellect. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Intellect is stronger than cannon. [ Theodore Parker ]
The march of the human mind is slow. [ Burke ]
Thou living ray of intellectual fire. [ Falconer ]
God has placed no limit to intellect. [ Bacon ]
The intellect colored by the feelings. [ Professor Wilson ]
The heart is wiser than the intellect, [ J. G. Holland ]
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous form of things:
We murder to dissect. [ Wordsworth ]
Clothes form the intellect of the dandy. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Light has spread, and even bayonets think. [ Kossuth ]
The hand that follows intellect can achieve. [ Michael Angelo ]
Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic. [ Amiel ]
Everything connected with intellect is permanent. [ William Roscoe ]
Ideality consists of the rainbow rays of intellect. [ Alfred Mercier ]
This fellow must have a rare understanding;
For nature recompenseth the defects
Of one part with redundance in another;
Blind men have excellent memories, and the tongue
Thus indisposed, there's treasure in the intellect. [ Shirley ]
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks, he is free. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. [ Chamfort ]
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. [ Carlyle ]
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. [ Coleridge ]
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect constructive. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. [ William Winter ]
There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science. [ Roswell D. Hitchcock ]
Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. [ Emerson ]
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. [ Franklin ]
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]
Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. [ Carlyle ]
Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured by inches in a man's face. [ Benjamin West ]
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. [ Rev. Thomas Scott ]
Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper. [ A. Helps ]
One of the marks of a mediocrity of intellect is to be given to story-telling. [ La Bruyère ]
Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the exact summary of human worth. [ Carlyle ]
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. [ Emerson ]
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. [ De La Bruyere ]
Mind is the great lever. Thought is the process by which human ends are answered. [ Webster ]
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. [ Sydney Smith ]
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. [ Emerson ]
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. [ Johnson ]
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. [ Hare ]
It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had none. [ Babinet ]
The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. [ Goethe ]
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. It is the doctrine of faith over works. [ Emerson ]
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. [ John Ruskin ]
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. [ Lowell ]
Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect and virtues. [ Channing ]
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. [ Coleridge ]
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. [ Charles Sumner ]
Books are loved by some merely as elegant combinations of thought; by others as a means of exercising the intellect. [ Lord Dudley ]
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. [ Buffon ]
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary. [ Buckle ]
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. [ Horace Mann ]
The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. [ Carlyle ]
A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. [ Chapin ]
The intellect of woman bears the same relationship to that of man as her physical organization; it is inferior in power and different in kind. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to reenact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intellect. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The term intellect
includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. [ William Fleming ]
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. [ Schopenhauer ]
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]
I value the education of the intellect not for its present joy alone, but for the greater growth it gives, the enlargement of the cup to take in more and higher joys. [ Parker ]
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller? [ Landor ]
The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance; but the soul reveals itself in the voice only. [ Longfellow ]
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. [ Moses Harvey ]
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. [ Aughey ]
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too. [ C. A. Bartol ]
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. [ Froude ]
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]
Intellect alone, however exalted, without strong feelings - without even, irritable sensibility - would be only like an immense magazine of powder, if there were no such element as fire in the natural world. It is the heart which is the spring and fountain of all eloquence. [ Lord Erskine ]
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]
What we call genius may, perhaps, in more strict propriety, be described as the spirit of discovery. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought. It is always in advance of its time. It is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. For this reason it is called a seer, and hence its songs have been prophecies. [ Simms ]
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]
Vulgar habit people have nowadays of asking one, after one has given them an idea, whether one is serious or not. Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect is the British intellect. And on the British form of intellect the illiterates play the drum. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]