Definition of Intellect

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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.

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Intellect Quotations

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

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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 can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Ernest Holmes

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

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

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