Intellect Quotes - Page 29

• The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

  George Sand

  Heart

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• One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

  Sándor Márai

  Betrayal, Character, Excellence

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• For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

  Billy Connolly

  People, Scared, Found

  "Billy Connolly: The lost years" by Pamela Stephenson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer.

  Albert Pike

  Wise, Horse, Men

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• Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.

  Louis C. K.

  Strong, Creativity, Apples

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• Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

  Desi Arnaz

  Real, World

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• I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

  John Malkovich

  People, Certain, Feels

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, Optimism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives... everybody.

  Barry White

  Pimp, Mind, Clubs

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perseverance, Honesty, Character

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.21, Taylor Trade Publications

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• A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.

  Doug Ferguson

  Believe, World, Emotion

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• Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Extravagance, Tests

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Acceptance, Views

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• In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing

  Justine Frischmann

  Mean, Oasis, America

  "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Character, People

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Needs, Free Will

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• CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Ceo, Expertise

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.16, Bantam

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• The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

  Harold L. Ickes

  Long, Suffering, Trouble

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• Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

  Nostradamus

  Mean, Light, Flames

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more devoutness and less devotion, more fear and less love, more feeling of duty than of desire, laying more stress on Phil. ii. 12 than ver. 13, and in practice working upon the intellect and imagination rather than aiming at the heart, skirmishing among the outworks rather than assaulting the citadel.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Stress, Heart, Practice

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• Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

  Idries Shah

  Book, Philosophical, Mean

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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• The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Ideas, Substance, Body

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• ...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

  Austin Farrer

  Heart, Flying, Doe

  Austin Farrer (2012). “Reflective Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessed, Opportunity, College

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons

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