Intellect Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Believe, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”

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• It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

  Oswald Chambers

  Knowing, Reason

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.168, Discovery House

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• In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.

  Thomas Huxley

  Matter, Reason, Consideration

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• Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

  James Anthony Froude

  Intellectual, Alive, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.353, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Clouds, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Fire, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Emotional, Effort

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• Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.

  Christiane Northrup

  Spiritual, Understanding, Soul

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• Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Intellectual, Morality

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Intellectual, Blasphemy

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