In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
Georg Simmel

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.
Cyrus Vance

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Desiderius Erasmus

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
Daniel Keys Moran

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Charles Scribner, Jr.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
Titus Livius

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
Loretta Swit

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.
Tom Shales

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
Suzanne Vega

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Matthew Simpson