Intellect Quotes - Page 30

• Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like Linda Kintz and Forest Pyle and Mary Wood and Diana Abu Jaber. They didn't treat me like a messy writer girl in combat boots who had infiltrated the smart people room. They treated me like I deserved to be there, potty mouth and all, they helped make a space for me to rage and ride my own intellect. That's why I'm saying their names out loud.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Girl, Teacher, Smart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

  Christiane Northrup

  Powerful, Order, Healthy

  "Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times Best-Selling Author: Growing Older Mindfully". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

  Marie Calloway

  Home, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a prostitute. Do you know what, it really is basically I just really like to work! I'm thrilled that there's a variety. It's why I got into this business to begin with, because I really don't have the discipline or intellect to have a 9-to-5 job. But I came from a classical music background and I merged that to theatre, it kind of opened up the door to a lot of different possibilities.

  Jason Graae

  Jobs, Doors, Discipline

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The reason that we have both good and wicked thoughts together is not, as some suppose, because the Holy Spirit and the devil dwell together in our intellect, but because we have not yet consciously experienced the goodness of the Lord. As I have said before, grace at first conceals its presence in those who have been baptized, waiting to see which way the soul inclines; but when the whole man has turned toward the Lord, it then reveals to the heart its presence there with a feeling words cannot express.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

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• Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Fear, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Heart, Learning, Intelligence

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• Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

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• Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Play, Mind

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• One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

  Frank Gehry

  Hero, Men, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Letting Go, Opportunity, Thinking

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Real, Sound, Transcendental

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

  John Kao

  Ideas, Two, Mark

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Growing Up, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Intelligent, Moon

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

  Erich Fromm

  Clever, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so at the top there's what he called the One. Below the One is what he called Intellect. Below Intellect is Soul, and the effect of the soul is the physical world that we actually live in.

  Peter Adamson

  People, Soul, Principles

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like that, and these he associates with the intellect because they're the objects of intellect, they are things that intellect can think about.

  Peter Adamson

  Thinking, Numbers, Justice

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by the intellect and the soul of the world, rather than the One.

  Peter Adamson

  Believe, Soul, Doe

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much more elevated and special, more abstract, you might say more philosophical than the very broad range of mental events that we talk about in contemporary philosophy of mind.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

  Peter Adamson

  Grasping, Form, Platonic

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and behold them, as if they were standing before it. And Plotinus said that that can't be right because it falls prey to sceptical objections.

  Peter Adamson

  Fall, Looks, Might

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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