Intellect is not wisdom.
– Thomas Sowell
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- The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. – Dada Bhagwan
- The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. – T Geronimo Johnson
- Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I’ve determined there is a God based on His intellect. – William Branks
- Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
- What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? – Thomas Sowell
- Reality does not go away when it is ignored. – Thomas Sowell
- No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. – Thomas Sowell
- As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. – Thomas Sowell
- It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal. – Thomas Sowell
- Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The buddhi [intellect] is today’s gain, it is today’s experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature’s gift! – Dada Bhagwan
- An ID number is only there to ‘identify’ human beings. Use it to assume people’s intellect or wisdom at your own risk. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life. – Debasish Mridha
- Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first. – Patience Johnson
- To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect. – Jack Schmitt
- …and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. – Hermann Hesse
- Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault. – Dada Bhagwan
- The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mindabout nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. – John Keats
- Konig couldn’t help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes. – Michael R Fletcher
- When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool. – Criss Jami
- Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
- The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions. – Raheel Farooq
- But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn’t believe in it? – Umberto Eco
- My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be. – Flannery OConnor
- A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. – Raheel Farooq
- Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The intellect is the earth, the emotions are the sky and the spirit is the universe beyond. – R A Delmonico
- In arguing, what people lack in intellect they usually make up for in name-calling. – C Vallo
- The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best. – Paul Babickii
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic. – Amit Kalantri
- Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice. – Raheel Farooq
- Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path! – Anuranjita Kumar
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. – Samuel Johnson
- Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor. – Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps. – Chris Campanioni