Intellect Quotes - Page 15

• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Hypocrite

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• Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Moving, Law

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1880). “On the Origin of Species; Or, The Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. A Course of Six Lectures ...”

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• Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers.

  Gerald Heaney

  Race, Decision, Political

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• The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Two, Democracy

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• Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

  Gordon Campbell

  Discovery, Years, Imagination

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• The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Character, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers

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• Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Men, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

  Mark Twain

  Running, German Language, Brain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

  George Santayana

  Skepticism, Chastity, Ripeness

  "Scepticism and Animal Faith". Book by George Santayana, 1923.

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• I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.243, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.

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• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

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• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Sports, Science, Discipline

  "Chaos: Making a New Science". Book by James Gleick, p. 70, 1987.

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• Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

  Camille Paglia

  Science, Night, Light

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Essentials, Problem

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Passion, Science

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• I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

  Charles Darwin

  Clever, Science, Night

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.174, NYU Press

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• The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

  John William Draper

  Faith, Science, Discovery

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
  Our meddling intellect
  Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
  We murder to dissect.
  Enough of Science and of Art;
  Close up these barren leaves;
  Come forth, and bring with you a heart
  That watches and receives.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Art

  'The Tables Turned' (1798)

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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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