Intellect Quotes - Page 14

• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Insanity, Lines, Littles

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Christianity, Really True

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

  Plotinus

  Beauty, Beautiful, Character

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

  Wendell Phillips

  Character, Men, Years

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• The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

  Roger Scruton

  Anarchy, Abstract, Unreal

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.

  Imre Lakatos

  Years, Two, Confusion

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

  Joe Locke

  Writing, Heart, Technique

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• Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

  Jacque Fresco

  Army, Government, People

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• The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

  Louis Sullivan

  Imagination, Vision, Needs

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• Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

  Thomas Eakins

  Eye, Brain, Use

  "Thomas Eakins". Book by Lloyd Goodrich, 1933.

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• My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.

  Neil Postman

  Creating, Phrases, Use

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.27, Penguin

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America

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• One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Communication, Learning

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.176, Courier Corporation

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• When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Common Sense, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

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• Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

  Betty Williams

  Powerful, Compassion, Often Is

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

  George Boole

  Science, Growth, Culture

  George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.6

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• From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

  George W. Bush

  Art, Views, Skills

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• The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Men, Dull Life

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• When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Sacrifice, Feet, Yield

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• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Heart, Men, Saint

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• The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

  John K. Fairbank

  Silly, Character, Stupidity

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• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Selfish, Heart, Science

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• Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

  Art, Children, Science

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