Intellect Quotes - Page 32

• I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Wine, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The "Bhagavad Gita" is actually a very good text for yoga - the yoga of love, the yoga of action or karma, the yoga of understanding of intellect, and the yoga of reflection and meditation. I think it's a very important map for understanding the nature of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Karma, Yoga, Reflection

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.

  Fred Armisen

  Country, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• As far as trying to make it terms of social hierarchy or status and all that in art and music - I've always felt that that stuff was bullshit. It's got very little to do with reality, and reality is where things live. You look at a painting and think, "Oh, it's beautiful. It inspires me," whatever. But it's never going to inspire you like reality. A lot of these artists and musicians who prioritize skill over experience, they sit around masturbating themselves over knowledge and intellect rather than just going to a place.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Feelings, Intellectual

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra - the mantra that Maharishi gives is very specific, and you start to dive into subtler levels of mind, subtler levels of intellect. You transcend the whole show, into pure bliss consciousness. From your first meditation, you say, "Whoa!" It's a unique experience, but a familiar experience.

  David Lynch

  Unique, Giving, Car

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different. What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Daughter, Doubt, Important

  Source: progressive.org

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• I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but 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, Stupid, Character

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We relate to Leonardo da Vinci because his genius was just being passionately curious about everything. He wanted to know everything he could know about our universe, including how we fit into it. We can't all have a superhuman intellect like Albert Einstein's, but we can be super-curious. And we can also quit smashing curiosity out of the hands our children.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Curiosity, Genius

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an audience is going to do. You don't know what's going to happen to the piece you're doing anyway. You don't know how it's going to be edited. There are a lot more unknowns in cinema. But that you have to readily accept. That's when, 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: film.avclub.com

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• The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the same time, this point of view redefines faith as a knowledge that is attained not only by intellectual means, but also through the rigorous development of the emotional side of the human psyche. Such emotional knowledge is unknown to the isolated intellect and has therefore been mistakenly labeled as "irrational."

  Jacob Needleman

  Mean, Emotional, Intellectual

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's more about shrewdness than about intellect. His attack on "elites" is meant to rally his base to rebel against the powers that be - in Washington especially. I don't think he cares much about higher education per se; he just wants to demonstrate that learning isn't necessary for business or government. He wants to elevate mediocrity to a heroic virtue.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Thinking, Disrespect, Mind

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critical to make it meaningful, to make it transformative.

  Henry Giroux

  Meaningful, Struggle, Pessimism

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• I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

  Isabel Allende

  Letting Go, Waiting, Trying

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• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Soul, May, Capability

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (2009). “Interior Castle: (the Dwelling Places)”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Heart, Men, Depraved

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• The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Self Esteem, Numbers, Achievement

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• The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Proud, Opinion

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• Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Reality, Faculty, Apprehension

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Illumination

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Two, Existence, Mathematical

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.219, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

  Max Born

  Order, Perfect, Needs

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.63, Springer

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  Harold Brodkey

  Accomplishment, Looks, Merit

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• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  Gary Busey

  Three, Pieces, Fuel

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Apr 20, 2013

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