Quotes on intellect

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

“Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.”

“God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.”

“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“Intelligence makes you smug, understanding makes you humble.”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Good literature is the enemy of the average mind, yet to the discerning soul, it is a rare delight.

Man is a being of will and intellect, capable of directing his own course.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought – that is being educated.

The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs in turn and who in turn absorb his.

Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.

Human as an intellectual being needs answers about the existence for the purpose of knowing the way to live.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

The temptation to take our own side in an argument is an intellectual weakness.