Intellect Quotes - Page 19

• I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, People, Judging

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• In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Race, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals, with a biographical sketch by F. V. Greene. Administration”

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Noble, Way, Sophisticated

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• I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

  Michael Patrick King

  Diversity, Emotion, Enjoy

  "Writer/Director Michael Patrick King Interview SEX AND THE CITY 2 – And The Plot is Revealed!". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. March 22, 2010.

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• The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Study, Resources, Attributes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Country, Children, Heart

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• The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Real, Mind, Perception

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• If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

  Richard Wilhelm

  Emotional, Harmony, Ifs

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• We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit: in the capacity to reflect that which, for lack of a more precise word, we choose to call “the divine,” i.e. that which is true and beautiful beyond all manifestation, that which remains timeless (and therefore unchangeable) within all changes.

  Savitri Devi

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Damage Control, People, Intellectual

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Sex, Laughing, Want

  "G3" Magazine, November 2002.

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• The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Real, Mind, Guru

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• ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Pride, Men

  Middlemarch Ch. 21

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• Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Argument, Rudeness, Eclipse

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Artist, Symphony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Facts, Common

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• One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

  Antonin Scalia

  Believe, Scary, Matter

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• Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Simple, Mind Love

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• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

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• Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fall, Should Have, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.

  Elinor Guggenheimer

  Jobs, Sex, Prejudice

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• ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Cities, Simplicity, Unions

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• Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

  Raymond Cattell

  Horse, Powerful, Plato

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