I Quotes
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“Intellect is intelligent, intuition is wise.
Awareness is intelligent, discernment is wise.
Truth is intelligent, knowledge is wise.
Speech is intelligent, silence is wise.
Curiosity is intelligent, insight is wise.
Caution is intelligent, prudence is wise.
Knowledge is intelligent, commonsense is wise.
Perception is intelligent, understanding is wise.
Theory is intelligent, experience is wise.
Virtue is intelligent, love is wise.
Scholars are intelligent, saints are wise.
Students are intelligent, teachers are wise.
Professors are intelligent, gurus are wise.
The past is intelligent, the future is wise.
Time is intelligent, eternity is wise.
Chance is intelligent, fate is wise.
The mind is intelligent, the soul is wise.
The eye is intelligent, the ear is wise.
The world is intelligent, the universe is wise.
Nature is intelligent, God is wise.”
“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Intellect is its thoughts.
Happiness is its desires.
Pleasure is its experiences.
Truth is its thoughts.
Awareness is its desires.
Reality is its experiences.
Imagination is its thoughts.
Intention is its desires.
Deeds are its experiences.
Wisdom is its thoughts.
Joy is its desires.
Love is its experiences.
The mind is its thoughts.
The heart is its desires.
The soul is its experiences.
The past is its thoughts.
The present is its desires.
The future is its experiences.
The world is its thoughts.
The universe is its desires.
The heavens are its experiences.”
“Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!”
“Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”
“Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.”
“Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“Intellect is not the answer,
Belief is not the answer.
These only amplify what we really are,
Good becomes great, jerk becomes jerker.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.”
“Intellect is not wisdom.”
“Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Intellect is stronger than cannon.”
“Intellect is supposed to enhance our humanity, not undermine it.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.”
“Intellect is the code, the password to a saving process. True salvation must be miraculous; it
must be nothing short of an escape to sex.”
Source: Escape to Sex
“Intellect is the disciplined thought-force that guides your mind, masters your impulses, and shapes your destiny.”
Source: Cherish or Perish: Strengthen your Intellect Save the World!
“Intellect is the light which illuminates its path, and without this light, emotion changes back and forth. In fact, if emotions prevail over the intellect, it is able to obscure the light and distort the picture of the entire world…. Emotional stirrings need the control of reason and the direction of the will.”
Source: Essays on Woman: 002;Collected Works of Edith Stein
“Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.”
“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.”
“Intellect knows.
Sympathy feels.
Compassion understands.
Wisdom knows.
Joy feels.
Love understands.
Awareness knows.
Consciousness feels.
Experience understands.
The mind knows.
The heart feels.
The soul understands.
Nature knows.
Mankind feels.
The universe understands.”
“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.”
“Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.”
“Intellect tangles and knots people, but love and compassion dissolve all tangles.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Intellect that takes away your humility isn't worth a penny.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.”
“Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.”
“Intellect, you see, is not the same as spirituality. While spirituality makes you humble, intellect without sensitivity just makes you snobbish and egoistic.”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Intellect--brain force.”
“Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.”
“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.”
Source: The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel
“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like conglomeration of intellectual exchanges involving many participants all trying to manipulate the ideas available to them in order to explain, justify, lay blame for, or otherwise make sense of what is happening around them. Everyone, not just the great minds, participates in this complicated process.”
Source: The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”
“Intellectual activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise.”
Source: The Blithedale Romance
“Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.”
“Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.”
Source: Letter to a Priest
“Intellectual aesthetics separates man from beast.”
“Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.”
Source: The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities
“intellectual and moral blindness is a dilemma which man inflicts upon himself by his tragic misuse of freedom and his failure to use his mind to it's fullest capacity.”
“Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation”
“Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.”
Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.”
“Intellectual capacity is related to the ability of solving problems in the
right manner.”
“Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.”
“Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.”