Intellect Quotes

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his head.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

I was having no success at charming him, so I slayed him with pure intellectual superiority. (On dining with Prime Minister Edward Heath)

‘Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

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. (Love’s Labour’s Lost)