The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God

The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.

To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.

Baseball is a game of strategy and intellect, as much as it is about physical prowess.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity

Intellect is not wisdom

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

The moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

Nature is the great ocean of intelligence in which we are bathed.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness.

Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect.

And so it is with our own past. It is a labor in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.

We should row with both oars: There’s the intellect and the emotions.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds.

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

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

There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.