Intellect Quotes - Page 37

• Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

  Tim Cahill

  Hate, Men, Interviews

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

  Robert Musil

  Soul, Littles, Matter

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.”

  John Galt

  Dream, Self Esteem, Thinking

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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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• If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.

  Yuanwu Keqin

  Fall, Long, Meditation

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• Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.

  Gigi Graham

  Blessed, Commitment, Emotional

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Errors, Too Much

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• Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Speak Less, Causes

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• Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

  Thomas Dubay

  Faith, Book, Inspiration

  Thomas Dubay (1999). “The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet”, p.163, Ignatius Press

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• An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Acceptance, Greatness

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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• Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Heart, Greed

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