“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”

Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz - “Some people think only intellect counts...” 1

Similar quotes

“…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…”

Fernando Pessoa
Read more

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it.”

Virginia Woolf
Read more

“you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”

Madeleine L'Engle
Read more

“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
Read more

“You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.”

Baxter Black
Read more