Intellect Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Men, Heroism

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Honesty, Kindness, Eye

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• Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

  Ellen Terry

  Art, Exercise, Simple

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Paris

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2016). “The Cloven Foot”, p.43, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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• Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Vigor

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Thinking, Impact

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• We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

  Walt Disney

  Real, Heart, Emotional

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• In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Names, Perfection

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.69, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Order, Enlightenment

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• Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Challenges

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• Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

  Kenny Smith

  Thinking, Years, Intuition

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• Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Meditation, Each Day

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• Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Law, Doe

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• Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Average, Order

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 77), March 6, 1995.

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