Intellect Quotes - Page 16

• [T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

  James Gunn

  Men, Fiction, World

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• The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Feelings, Mind, Church

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• The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Men, Emotion

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• Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, Idols

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• The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Passion, Exercise

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

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• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Hands, His Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

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• It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Thank God, Needs

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.299, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Sight

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• Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
  [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Want, Prove

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• Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Men, Taste

  "The Characters, Or, the Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Nicholas Rowe and Theophrastus (Chapter V), 1688.

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• We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, People, Sociable

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

  William Ralph Inge

  Self, Affection, Consecration

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• We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Essence, Ideas, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.190

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• One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Intuition, Revolution

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.76, Convergent Books

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• Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Differences, Land

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4192, e-artnow

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• The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Race, America, Bostonians

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• I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Mean, Mind

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

  Edward Everett

  Truth, Philosophy, Discovery

  Edward Everett (1840). “Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses”, p.228

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• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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• Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

  Wendell Phillips

  Discipline, Growth, Want

  Wendell Phillips (1861). “Disunion: 2 discourses”, p.28

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• When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Spurs

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• Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Unique, Reality

  Paul Caponigro (1972). “Paul Caponigro”

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