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“Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.”

Mind May Wisdom Passion Fire Youth Sorrow Ten Ill Profit Affection Intellect Nine Bridges Disappointed Manhood Sigh Wrecks Intervals Hardened

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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.”

World Enough Time Suffering Humanity Intellect Good Enough Not Good Enough Present Time Insufficiency Overabundance

Author:Ashley Montagu

“A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life.”

Ifs Knows Persons Doe Said Ends Feelings Faith Roots Critical Intellect Examination

Author:Alexander Lowen

“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.”

Ideas War Reason Government Running Political Social Clothes Seasons Instruments Intellect Revenge Contemporary Superiors Thrive Smooth Arbitrary Explicit Utilitarian

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.”

Should Work Freedom Emotional Discipline Equal Elements Weight Regard Equality Connected Intellect Separation Tone Spontaneous Spontaneity Supplements

Author:Armin Hofmann

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”

Ifs Interest Advice Serious Intellect Appeals Awe Persuasion Persuading Awe Inspiring

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.”

Littles Moments Judgment Luck Intellect Little Moments

Author:Livy

“But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.”

Men Has Beens Reason Age Remember Law Class Principles Pure Intellect Prophet Lofty Priesthood Oracles

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.”

Made Political Mistake Feminism Instinct Intellect Valentine's Day

Author:Valentine de Saint-Point

“Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.”

Knows Needs Wells Choices Know How Study Depends Taste Judgment Intellect Good Taste

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?”

Humans Doe Reason Hands Form Animal Shapes Spring Depth Forgotten Intellect Contrary Contact Surround Rooted Multiple Proliferation

Author:David Abram

“Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.”

Men World Inspirational Whole Motivational Perfect Intellect Whole World Conquer Holiness Sincerity Handful

Book:Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda

“Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them”

Giving Feelings Body Emotion Support Needed Dancing Intellect Nerves Schooling Poise

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one's energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.”

World Mean Use Motivational Wealth Simple Quality Special This World Genius Exercise Ordinary Rewards Intellect Energetic Wealth And Happiness

Author:Og Mandino

“Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.”

Use Memories Authority Self Improvement Intellect Improvement Debate

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.”

Men Heart Process Intellectual Train Intellect Manhood True Man

Book:Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas

Source: Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas

“My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.”

Men Wells Goodness Instinct Intellect Be Good Conclusion Yearning Leading Me

Author:Albert Rosenfeld

“One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.”

Men Wells Easy Democracy Periods Taste Democratic Intellect Pursuit Enjoyment Characteristics

Book:Democracy in America: Part the Second: The Social Influence of Democracy

Source: Democracy in America: Part the Second: The Social Influence of Democracy

“Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.”

Doe Force Enemy Intellect

Author:Madame de Stael

“Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.”

Heart Has Beens Form Rocks Bed Built India Importance Foundation Intellect Core Consideration Backbone Edifice

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.”

Men Giving Heart Inspiration Speak Human Beings Greater He Man Intellectual Instruments Inspired Intellect Heartless

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.”

Men Ends Human Beings Intellect

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.”

Inspirational Heart Use Together Cutting Intellect Pairs Divides Needles Tailors Scissors

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.”

Men Attention Known Tree Land Sweet Listening Drink Wine Various Intellect Alcohol Coffee Bitter Tea Juice Drank Vines Moustache Draught Twirling

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory”

Inspirational Real Memories Effort Intellect Real Knowledge

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.”

Facts Faces Sides Our Lives Intellect Contradiction

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.”

Way Mind Facts Principles Study Intellect

Book:Vivekananda Reader

Source: Vivekananda Reader

“But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.”

Force Causes Fate Chaos Intellect Jet

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.”

Ifs Humans Reason Values Animal Cases Willing Judgment Bases Intellect Animal Rights Inherent Autonomy

Book:The Animal Rights Debate

Source: The Animal Rights Debate

“Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.”

People Soul Pain Spiritual Moving Certain Animal Creatures Intellect Welfare Animal Rights Superiority Living Creatures

Author:Nahmanides

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.”

Life Inspirational Use Wisdom Turns Water Cold Waste Intellect Ice Iron Rust Stagnant Stagnant Water

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.”

Mind Doe Art Made Purpose Emotion Moral Scene Aim Intellect Impression Painter Appeals Works Of Art

Book:George Inness

Source: George Inness

“I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.”

Pieces Kissing Intellect Treated Meat Kind Of Girl

Book:Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's

Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's

“Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common.”

Men Giving Passion Common Moral Higher Sacred Intellect Preserves Diets Vigor Enabling Propensity Higher Power

Author:Ellen G. White

“I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.”

Soul Light Sun Wine Depth Intellect My Soul Flames Ecstasy Butterfly Stolen Vessel Drank Radiant Orbit Like A Butterfly

Author:Rumi

“Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.”

Love Soul Body Water Knowledge Tears Ego Intellect Islamic Purification Islamic Wisdom Purifying Caliphs

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.”

Mind Shows Feelings Three Games Winning Loses Quality Bears Essentials Ill Intellect Wounds Selfishness Temper Modest Adversaries Bragging

Author:W. Patterson

“Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.”

People Book Ten Prove Smart Entrepreneur Intelligence Valuable Intellect Smart People Smart Women

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.”

“When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.”

Thinking Heart Wonder Lord Mystery Shapes Conscience Mere Intellect Unfolding

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.”

Light Eye Form Language Challenges Design Color Balance Harmony Intellect Scales Symbols Tension Visuals Graphic Graphic Design Pun Inference Uniting Allusion

Author:Jessica Helfand

“As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.”

Thinking Grace Needed Truth Is Concerned Empty Caught Intellect Garbage Rubbish Search For Truth

Author:Mooji

“Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.”

Men Long Has Beens Animal Grace Magic Influence Exercise Cat Intellect Kingdoms Electric Cardinals Batteries Adorable Animal Kingdom Venus In Furs

Book:Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

“As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.”

World Mind Heart Meditation Painting Wall Goes On Creating Paint Intellect Painter

Author:Brahmananda Saraswati

“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”

Intellect Heroism

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It is our duty to look for deeper meanings in the Quran in order to increase our knowledge and experience. The Quran wants your intellect to be always active and trying to approach the message of God. God himself dedicated this book to people who think.”

“It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that”

World Heart Spirit Can Do Comfort Depth Intellect Generosity Richness Your Generosity Generosity Of Spirit

Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru

“In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.”

Littles Order Social Class Progress Duty Civilization Skills Lows Intellect Fidelity Vigor Refinement Drudgery Social Systems

Book:Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

“What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.”

“Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.”

Knows Children Together Poor Rich Doors Industry Intellect Seats Distinction

Author:Townsend Harris

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