Intellect Quotes - Page 2

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.