Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.