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“When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.”

Children Virtue Intellect Expenses Mundane

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.”

Lines Produce Intellect Prose One Line

Author:Edward Thomas

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

Ifs Interest Intellect Appeals Loving Friends

Author:William Shakespeare

“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”

Ifs Men Way May Whole Form Passion Opinion Taste Lucky Philosophical Affair Philosopher Intellect Practicals Conquest Petty

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.”

Creation Duty Taste Conscience Concern Relation Intellect Sole Arbiter Collateral

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.”

Men Lines Emotion Progress Intellect Curves

Book:The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Plays of Oscar Wilde

“The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

Mind Heart Rooms Divine Habit Charity Intellect Breathe Tolerance Senses Faculty Alas Cannibal Magnanimity Kindliness

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”

Ideas Realizing Taste Function Intellect Active Senses Former Latter Faculty Passive

Book:The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments

“Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.”

Believe Said Process Water Natural Simple Holy Quiet Mass Critical Intellect Dull Bless Holy Water

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.”

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same vibrating out of the Infinite to the inner audience of the man who had previously made himself fit fot the impersonal knowledge.”

Men Made Language Audience Heard Divine He Man Fit Infinite Intellect Rhythm Vedas

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.”

Way Moments Remember Stuff Knowing Clear Saws Seeing Minutes Ten Computer Obvious Intellect Someday Users Apocalyptic Interfaces User Interface

Author:Steve Jobs

“The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.”

Thinking Wells Two Form Left Modern Intellect Theme Neglect Education System Modern Society Hemisphere Left And Right Nonverbal

Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.”

People Men Needs Feelings Action Quality Support Events Intelligent Intellect

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.”

Kind Pleasure Results Special Faults Intellect Contradiction Bows Intolerance Temperament Egotism Stubbornness Autonomous Obstinacy

Book:On War

Source: On War

“It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.”

Would Be Able Intuition Intellect Spots

Author:Barry Zito

“Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer”

Moments Prayer Focus Praying Intellect

Author:Masami Saionji

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”

Inspirational Ideas Wisdom Pleasure Labor Intelligence Intellect Daydreaming Reverie Les Miserable

Book:Saint Denis

Source: Saint Denis

“Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.”

Doe Stills Light Simple Pure Picks Intellect Spy Here And There

Book:Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

Source: Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

“With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.”

Men Intellect Senses

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.”

Body Members Ultimate Unions Intellect Everlasting Inseparable Everlasting Life

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.”

Eye Desire Causes All Things Essence Intellect

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive Him. Therefore, God is revealed therein, that one knows that every intellect is too small to make itself a figuration or concept of Him. However, he names him God, or in Greek, theos.”

Knows Humans Wanted Names Concepts Philosopher Intellect Greek

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.”

Eye Found Color Intellect Rational Regions

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.”

World Running Able Universe Found Vision Lord Path Kings Taste Speech Hearing Intellect Smell Rationality

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?”

Ifs Feels Believe Humans Body Spirit Understanding Human Beings Emotion Example Creatures Saint Intellect Sexuality Flesh Sinner Divided Splits Virgins Disconnected Saints And Sinners

Author:Tori Amos

“Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.”

Humans Mean Train Intellect Chess Educate

Author:Che Guevara

“A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.”

Men Wells Art Hard Body Passion Enjoy Love Is Clear Hard Work Morality Conscience Intellect Good Man Controlled Despise Inferiors Passion For Life

Author:Thomas Huxley

“A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.”

Source: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More

“The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.”

Should House Library University Intellect Exception Graduates Transcendental

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.”

Heart Intellect Symbols

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.”

Social Intellectual Program Intellect Socialism Communism Fascism Social Control Communism And Socialism

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.”

“The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.”

Firsts Doe Class Objects Intellect

Author:William James

“I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Wells Said Ends Seems Wanted Actors Interesting Figures Fit Intellect Eastern Oh Well

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”

Men Emotion Clear Psychology Streets He Man Argument Instinct Seeking Intellect Appeals Yield Tactics No Point Unimportant Crude Subordinates Psychological Warfare

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.”

Form Powerful Consciousness Awareness Planets Intellect Most Powerful

Author:James McAvoy

“The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.”

Heart Persons Lying Greatness Intellect

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.”

Writing Literature Imagination Fiction Moral Greater Messages Intellect Clarity Penetrate Greater Power

Author:Charles Colson

“I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.”

Glasses Intellect Badges

Author:Simon Munnery

“By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.”

Knows Want Two Hard Running Challenges Leader Position Instinct Intellect Ongoing

Author:Bill Walsh

“When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.”

Knows Men Mind Beautiful Path Good Things Intellect Chosen Worthwhile Impress Routes Handsome Looking Good Impressive Beautiful Women Showing Up Handsome Men

Author:Adam Gopnik

“A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.”

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

Persons Wisdom Found Sex Interest Interesting Education One Thing Intellectual Intelligence Witty Intellect Sexuality Intellectualism Funny Sex Intellectual Life Intellectual Growth

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. ... Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.”

May Matter Reason Facts Lying Certain Principles Essence Regard Method Intellect Conclusion Consideration Application Creeds Positively Agnosticism

Book:Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley

Source: Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley

“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”

Thinking World Science Existence Struggle Theory Intellectual Species Intellect Extinction Rivals Resisting Struggle For Existence

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.”

Feels Heart Facts Study Clear Careful Intellect

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.”

Heart Ambition Intellect Temper Rotten Envious

Book:The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk

Source: The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk

“Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.”