Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
The Defendant
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Not a select party.
La ROCHEFOUCAULD François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Last Essays of Elia ‘Popular Fallacies'
[A pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Sir James Mackintosh'
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first
to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Sontag Susan 1933
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Southey Robert 1774-1843
Colloquies on the Progress ... of Society
The arts babblative and scribblative.
Spencer Herbert 1820-1903
Social Statics
Openion is ultimately determined by the
feelings, and not by the intellect.
Spinoza Baruch 1632-1677
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘The Tables Turned'
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:-
We murder to dissect.
Arnold Thomas 1795-1842
(address to his scholars at Rugby)
What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles;
secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
‘New Year letter'
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say,
Is a keen observer of life,
The word ‘Intellectual' suggests straight away
A man who's untrue to his wife.
Camus Albert 1913-1960
Notebooks
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Eisenhower Dwight D. 1890-1969
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Keynes John Maynard 1883-1946
General Theory
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct
economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
Lynes Russell
Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Miller Arthur
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being.
Said Edward
The intellectual should be a disrupter or a dissenter - a nay sayer.
Shelley Mary 1797-1851
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sterne Laurence 1713-1768
Tristram Shandy
There is a North-west passage to the intellectual World.
Trollope Joanna 1943-
The middle class is the backbone of England.
In intellectual circles that's been absolutely unsayable.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘A Poet's Epitaph'
A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
An intellectual all-in-all!