Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities

Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

Google Web brainyquote.com   
Definition of Intellect
Intellect

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

Related Definitions:
And, As, By, Capacity, Comprehend, Distinguished, Faculty, Feel, For, From, Human, In, It, Judge, Knowledge, Of, Or, Part, Perceive, Power, Sometimes, Soul, The, Their, Thinking, To, Understanding, Which, Will


Intellect Quotations

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Intellect Translations

intellect in Afrikaans is gees
intellect in Danish is fornuft
intellect in Dutch is verstand, intellect, geest
intellect in German is Intelekt
intellect in Latin is animus, mens mentis
intellect in Norwegian is forstand
intellect in Spanish is intelecto


Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com