Intellect Quotes - Page 25

• But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Pride, Echoes

  Francis Bacon (1855). “Francisci BAconi de Verulamio, ...: Novum organum, sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturæ”, p.98

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• The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Freedom, People, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.204

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

  John Hurt

  Believe, Thinking, Intuition

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my intellect to say the ridiculous medical jargon while acting and treating a patient and then I have to try to have a personality and emotions as well. So it is definitely hard work.

  John Leguizamo

  Hard Work, Personality, Trying

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.

  Mark Hart

  Heart, Hardened, Ifs

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.34, Franciscan Media

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• Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.

  Dick Armey

  Heart, Engineering, Hands

  "Blair Snitch Project II" by Eric Umansky, www.slate.com. September 25, 2002.

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• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hitting, Unbearable, Reason

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Degrading

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, introduction.

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• If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Confused, Character, Language

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• [To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

  Anthony John Patrick Kenny

  Soul, Summit, Humans

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• Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

  Allen W. Wood

  Use, Distrust, Rely

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• The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.

  George MacDonald

  Brother, Eye, Light

  George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination: And Other Essays”

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• The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

  Carl Jung

  Totality

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.119, Psychology Press

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• Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

  Peter Abelard

  Language

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Thinking, Clouds, Evil

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Sadness, Warrior, Night

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.36, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• I find no intellect comparable to my own

  Margaret Fuller

  My Own

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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