Intellect Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

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• The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Military, Character, Men

  Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”

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• After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

  Marshall Brickman

  Real, Coffee, College

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• Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep. So for people to understand Doors music is certainly a testament to their intellects.

  Ray Manzarek

  Simple, Doors, People

  "Ray Manzarek on The Doors' Musical Legacy, Whiskey a Go Go, His Mother Cutting Jim Morrison's Hair: From the Billboard Archive". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 4, 2006.

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• Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Wicked, Earth

  Robert Musil (1961). “The Man Without Qualities”

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• It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Book, Writing, Order

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking, Animal

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.145, Classic Books Company

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• Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Clothes, Brain, Would Be

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 29, 1954.

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• I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.

  Matthew Simpson

  Heart, Hands, Soul

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• Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

  George Pendle

  Airports, Carpet, Senses

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, May, Dignity

  Letter to his brother, M. P. Chekhov, April 1879.

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• One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

  Ken Gillespie

  Dog, Painter, Amazed

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Judgment, Feelings Of Inadequacy

  "Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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• The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Tape, Noses

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.82

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• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Men, Doubt

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Hands, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Truth, Soul, Matter

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.413

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• If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Mind, Vacancy

  "Proverbial Philosophy (Of Recreation)". Book by Martin Farquhar Tupper, 1839.

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• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Humanity, Intuition

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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