intellect

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves that they don't really believe what they say that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas and all we've been producing is footnotes.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.