"good intellect" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who is particularly sharp or intelligent. For example, "She demonstrated a good intellect by solving the complex problem in record time."
"She has a good intellect, a big heart and tremendous expertise," Ms. Ignagni said.
Henry III had a good intellect, an ingratiating manner, cultivated tastes, and a gift for oratory but could not save France from civil war.
The three basic principles of Plotinus' metaphysics are called by him 'the One' (or, equivalently, 'the Good'), Intellect, and Soul (see V 1; V 9).
And although I appreciate a good intellect as much as anyone, for me at least, as a singular path it was just too confining.
It must be good news that fewer than ever executives with good intellects and decent values want to sell their souls for the glistening salary packages at big tobacco – and that those who work for big tobacco know their own employers worry that they are second-rate.
Errors of apprehension are certainly possible, and yet a human action always originates in the apprehension of some apparent good by intellect and the desire for it by the will informed by the apprehension.
Understanding that the good for an intellect is contemplation of all that the One is means that the will is oriented to one thing only, whatever transient desires may turn up.
He would meet men in bars, dazzle them with his good looks and intellect, drop celebrity tidbits gleaned from prior scams -- and then fleece them.
The Neo-Platonists (such as Plotinus, 205-270) taught a world-system of emanation, whereby the One (like Plato's Form of the Good) flowed into Intellect (the realm of the Forms) and from there into the World-Soul and individual souls, where it encountered the realm of bodies, from where it returned to itself ('the flight of the alone to the alone').
"Some of us are fortunate enough to have a good brain, and intellect tempers our emotion".
Former President George W. Bush called Scalia "a towering figure" who "brought intellect, good judgment, and wit to the bench".
