Intellect Quotes - Page 26

• The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Eye, Objects

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.198

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• The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1252, Delphi Classics

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• I am the way into the city of woe.
  I am the way to a forsaken people.
  I am the way into eternal sorrow.
  Sacred justice moved my architect.
  I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
  Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
  Only those elements time cannot wear
  Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
  Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Omnipotence, Cities, Justice

  Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

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• When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Virtue, Expenses

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.120, Routledge

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• Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

  Rajneesh

  May, Awakening, Inference

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• A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

  Edward Thomas

  Lines, One Line, Produce

  1908 Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 26 Feb.

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• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Loving Friends, Appeals, Interest

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• Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.

  William James

  Philosophical, Passion, Men

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Taste, Creation, Sole

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1380, Delphi Classics

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• A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Curves, Progress

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

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• The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

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• Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sea, Shining

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• Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

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• Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Taste, Realizing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1995). “The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments”

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• Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Simple, Water

  "Pensées". Book by Blaise Pascal, Section III: On the Necessity of the Wager (184-241), 1669.

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• The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Law, Support, Democracy

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.103, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Vedas, Language

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• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowing, Stuff, Way

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• The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Thinking, Two, Hemisphere

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• Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Intelligent, Men, People

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.102, Princeton University Press

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• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Special, Bows, Faults

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

  Barry Zito

  Intuition, Would Be, Able

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• While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Data, May, Hard

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• Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer

  Masami Saionji

  Prayer, Focus, Praying

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• Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

  Meister Eckhart

  Simple, Light, Spy

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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