Intellect Quotes - Page 38

• I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Wish, Riches

  Mark Twain (2007). “The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain”, p.203, Modern Library

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• Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

  Jim Butcher

  Venture, Failing, Instinct

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.67, Penguin Group

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• No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Roots, Wealth, Force

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

  Toni Morrison

  Strong, Lying, Maturity

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

  William Shakespeare

  Animal, Drunk, Ink

  William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (2011). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, Two, Mind

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• Intellect is not wisdom.

  Thomas Sowell

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• the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Character, Men

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.12

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• We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moon, Destiny, Would Be

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• No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It’s now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Female, Chance

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• So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Blood, Opposites

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• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Dark, Men

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932"

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• In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Philosophy, Gita

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.184, Gibbs Smith

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• Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Five Senses, Minorities

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Spring, Skeletons, Self

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• At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Heart, Emotional

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• The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheism, Affirmative, Creator

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.131, Diversion Books

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• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Illumination, Clouds, Light

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• In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Cheer, Flower, Home

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.666, Everyman's Library

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• ....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Responsibility, Pride, Vanity

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• I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Blue, Sky

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

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• I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Faith, Heart, Light

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• Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Passion, Men

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