Intellect Quotes - Page 3

• The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Race, Vanishing, Trouble

  The Petrified Forest act 1 (1934)

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• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Out of My Later Life 517

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• Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.57, Hackett Publishing

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• Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Two, Feelings

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

  Marianne von Werefkin

  Heart, World, Limits

  "Voicing our visions, - Writings by women artists" edited by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991.

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, People

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• A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

  Paul Johnson

  Art, Planning, Plans

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• The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, World, Shapes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833). “Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'”, p.95

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• ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Hero, Men

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Jumping, Long, Littles

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligent, Play, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.815, GENERAL PRESS

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• Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Comparison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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• As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Brain, Mind, Body

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• Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

  Samuel Gridley Howe

  Wisdom, Thinking, Important

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• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

  Francis Bacon

  God, Exercise, Intelligent

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Silly

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• Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Mind, Thorns

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• Tis good-will makes intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Good Will

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.107, Everyman's Library

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• Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Soul, Immortal

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• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

  Madame de Stael

  Enemy, Doe, Force

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• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Feelings, Conflict

  Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912. "The life of Bertrand Russell". Book by Ronald W. Clark, p. 174, 1975.

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

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, Benefits, Theory

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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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