Intellect Quotes - Page 34

• Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

  James Joyce

  Men, Curves, Lines

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• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Fun, Truth

  "Psychological Types: Or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Conclusion, p. 628, 1921.

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  The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Mean, Science

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

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• Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Character, Men, Class

  "Obama & Friends: Judge Not?". The Washington Post Article, www.washingtonpost.com. October 10, 2008.

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• There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Talking, People, Information

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• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

  Annie Lennox

  Heart, Expression, Soul

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• I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

  Jerry Lewis

  Doors, Common Sense, Instinct

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, World

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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.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Thinking, Keys

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, film.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

  John Major

  Patience, Running, Games

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher: And Other Tory Legends". Book by Richard Benson, 2010.

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• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  Karl Marx

  Simple, Intelligent, Levels

  Das Kapital vol. 1, ch. 16 (1867) (translation by Ben Fowkes)

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• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

  Carson McCullers

  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

  Carson McCullers (2015). “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Intelligence, Literature

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• Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

  Guru Nanak

  Sweet, Mind, Shallow

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Golf, Simple

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• Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Men, Giants, Kind

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Skills, Experience

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• 'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

  Jerry Saltz

  Heart, Night, Color

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• Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Willpower, Minus

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• Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Pessimism, Stubbornness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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