Quotes: Intellect

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Mary Tyler Moore

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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Edward Thorndike

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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Loretta Swit

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Thomas Carlyle

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Maybe it’s the hair. Maybe it’s the teeth. Maybe it’s the intellect. No, it’s the hair.

Tom Shales

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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Friedrich Schiller

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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist’s drill.

Leonard Woolf

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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

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