Intellect
The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
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Intellect Quotations
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
Intellect Translations
intellect in Afrikaans is gees
intellect in Danish is fornuft
intellect in Dutch is verstand, intellect, geest
intellect in German is Intelekt
intellect in Latin is animus, mens mentis
intellect in Norwegian is forstand
intellect in Spanish is intelecto
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