No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
David Hilbert

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Michael Servetus

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
George Boole

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
Edward Thorndike

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Jacques Maritain

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Sivananda

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Jacques Barzun

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
James Callaghan