Intellect Quotes - Page 20

• I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

  Michael Patrick King

  Diversity, Emotion, Enjoy

  "Writer/Director Michael Patrick King Interview SEX AND THE CITY 2 – And The Plot is Revealed!". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. March 22, 2010.

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Country, Children, Heart

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• I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Damage Control, People, Intellectual

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Facts, Common

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

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• ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Cities, Simplicity, Unions

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• Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

  Raymond Cattell

  Horse, Powerful, Plato

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• No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Men, Solitude, Doe

  Thomas De Quincey (1871). “The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspira de profundis. General index”, p.3

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• The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Doe, Divine

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• How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Ideas, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1262, Delphi Classics

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• What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Heart, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Years, Ice

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.315, Penguin

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• A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Memories, Imagination

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• A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Blow, Self, Wind

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• It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Judging, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.334, Modern Library

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• The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Men, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

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• The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Age, Old Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Extravagance, Excess

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• The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Blessed, Past

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• In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

  Shirley Bassey

  Heart, Judging, Temptation

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• Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

  Tom Kettle

  Views, Ideas, Mind

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