Intellect Quotes - Page 7

• The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect.

  George Harrison

  Letting Go, People, Needs

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• It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Doe, Pay, Reverence

  "Due Reverence: Antiques in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society". Book by Murphy D. Smith (p. 3), 1992.

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• The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Intellectual

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Writing, Creativity, Ideas

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• Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Heart, Men

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• Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

  Horace

  Teaching, Training, Braces

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• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Path, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Mistake, Long

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• True success depends more on character than on intellect.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Character, True Success, Depends

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• Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Self, Political, Gold

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Musician, Might, Belief

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2014

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• It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

  Michelangelo

  Wise, Thinking, Inspire

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• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, People

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Philosophy, Cutting

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• How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Art, Grateful

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• Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

  Edward Thorndike

  Education, Character, Mean

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• One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Life, Motivational, Character

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• She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Teacher, Strong, Home

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)

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• The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Heart, Errors, Mind

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.61

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• The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critical to make it meaningful, to make it transformative.

  Henry Giroux

  Meaningful, Struggle, Pessimism

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Confused, Childhood

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• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

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