Intellect Quotes - Page 34

• Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Humanist

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2169, Library of Alexandria

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• . . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

  Thomas Huxley

  Religion, Desire, Failing

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Fear, Journey, Doe

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• The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.194, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

  Ilka Chase

  Political, Dry

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• I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.

  Eva Mendes

  Sexy, Ambition, Doe

  "Eva Mendes Doesn't Want to Just Be 'Sexy'" by Gillian Koenig, people.com. July 13, 2010.

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• SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Smart, Book

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is life worth living?
  Yes, so long as there is wrong to right.
  So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives,
  And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives;
  While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will,
  And men are free to think and act,
  Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Beautiful, Important

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

  Hamza Yusuf

  People, Islam

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• There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

  Charles Simic

  People, Decision, Born

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• I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Mediocre, Knows

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• Burn worldly love,
  rub the ashes and make ink of it,
  make the heart the pen,
  the intellect the writer,
  write that which has no end or limit.

  Guru Nanak

  Writing, Heart, Ink

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• I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, School, Intelligent

  "2010 The Vote: K-12 Education". San Angelo Times, September 11, 2010.

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• The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
  move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
  But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
  but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
  His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Love Stories”, p.136, The Floating Press

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• The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Quality, Needs

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• A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

  John Henry Newman

  Matter, Reason, Wells

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• No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

  David Hilbert

  Men, Ideas, Needs

  "Über das Unendliche" ["On the Infinite"] (1925) address to der Westfälischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft in honour to the memory of Karl Weierstrass, as quoted in "Number The Language of Science" by Tobias Dantzig, 1930.

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• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Science, Animal

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• On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Lasts, Study

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.25, Routledge

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• Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Emotion, Aids

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• Human intellect is incurably abstract.

  C. S. Lewis

  Abstract, Humans

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

  Florence Nightingale

  Spiritual, Men, Voice

  Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.260, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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