Intellect Quotes - Page 17

• Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

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• We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.

  Bob Proctor

  Two, Understanding, Mind

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• Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

  David Lynch

  Meditation, Mind, Technique

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Soul, He Man

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• Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Giving, Grace, Doubt

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155

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• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mother, Baby, Tired

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• Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Passion, Soul

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• So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

  Angelina Grimke

  Earth, Napkins, Talent

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin

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• Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

  Lucille Clifton

  Intelligence, Intuition, Doe

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• I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

  Myrtle Reed

  Army, Personality, Rabbits

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• The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.

  Henrietta Szold

  Heart, Feds

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• The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Drama, Light

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

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• There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Pride, Earth

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• I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

  Mary Collyer

  Laughter, Stupid, Practice

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• Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

  Angela of Foligno

  Bible, Wise, Men

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• Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry...
  To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds... Trusting in Molech... or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.

  Lynn Austin

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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• Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. 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, Impact, America

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• My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.

  Robert M

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

  Robert Greene

  Persistence, Keys, People

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• We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Ideas, Order, Laughing

  Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”

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• Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  People, Influence, Decadence

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Feelings, Age, Use

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• Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

  Lydia M. Child

  Heart, Glowing, Age

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 33, 1843.

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• Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

  Lydia M. Child

  Effort, Doctrine, Puddles

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• in intellect there is no sex.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Sex

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