#intellect

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#love #truth #will #life

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. ↗

— Paul Valery

#inner #intellect #our #plan #present

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #need #power #seen #spiritual

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#intellect #life #life

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#intellects #superior #things #truth

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#eye #go #heart #intellect #road