Intellect Quotes - Page 4

• If I think, I am lost.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Lost, Ifs

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• In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Passion, Reality

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Religious, Mean, Science

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Benefits, Theory

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• It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Forget Everything, Childhood

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.141

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• Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Kingdoms, Products

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• Intellect is stronger than cannon.

  Theodore Parker

  Stronger, Cannons

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• Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spheres, Streams, Interfere

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Understanding, Matter

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct".

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• The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.

  Hiram Powers

  Eye, Animal, Men

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Intelligence, Tools, Faculty

  "Creative Evolution" (1907) by Henri Bergson, as quoted in "Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence" by David Kreps, 2015.

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• Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Achievement, Brain, Mind

  Elliot W. Eisner (2005). “Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner”, p.212, Taylor & Francis

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• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Future, Expectations, Unexpected

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.93, A&C Black

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• I am my brain's publisher.

  Philippe Starck

  Brain, Publishers

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• The eyes get in the way of the mind.

  Randy Sanders

  Eye, Mind, Way

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• In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Destiny, Brain, Scales

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• Genius is intellect constructive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Constructive

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• Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giver, Receiver

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin

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• Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Animal, Ideas

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

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• To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

  William Winwood Reade

  Religious, Fall, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Broken Heart, Emotion, Fooled

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• Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

  Terry Goodkind

  Character, Men, Intelligence

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.56, Head of Zeus

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• Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

  Tom Hoover

  Reality, Experience, Analysis

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• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Revenge, War, Intelligent

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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