Intellect Quotes - Page 35

• I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Thinking, Tree, Infinity

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.875, JHU Press

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• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Intuition, Determined

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8

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• If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

  Lysander Spooner

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Partisans of Freedom: A Study in American Anarchism". Book by William O. Reichert, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, p. 118, 1976.

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• Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

  Stars, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

  Serj Tankian

  Believe, Civilization, Psychology

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Thinking, Ideas

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• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  Lionel Trilling

  Honor, Culture, Blame

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Crowds

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

  Paul Valery

  Science, Profound, Structure

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Chiefs

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

  Lech Walesa

  Information, Eras, Internet

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• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Forgiving, Enough

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.826, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Writing, Energy

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• A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  Norton Juster

  Smell, Gone, Phantom Tollbooth

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• I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Book, Home, Boys

  H.P. Lovecraft (2011). “The Road to Madness”, p.84, Del Rey

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

  Cornel West

  Order, White, People

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Religious, Truth

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• Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

  Edward Abbey

  Heart, Clouds

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, People, Enough

  Edward de Bono (2017). “I Am Right, You Are Wrong”, p.235, Penguin UK

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• Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Art, Personality, Language

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• I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Men, Self

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.86, Canongate Books

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