intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens.
The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.
The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.
Intellect confuses intuition.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
. . . I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.
We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
You have a dizzying intellect.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.