Intellect Quotes

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)

Intellect can raise, From airy words alone, a Pile that ne’er decays.

The supreme end of education, we are told, is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.