Intellect Quotes

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Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Heart Determination Consciousness Intellect Conviction Resolve Mental Awareness Development Chi Ro Jin Might Psychic Powers

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive,

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Art Science Economics Mind Expertise Intellect Economists

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to

... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

Truth God Faith Mind Intellect Objectivity

Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the wi

Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a self-correction should take place.

Truth Metaphysical Intellect

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory tha

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Pride Memory Senses Joy Intellect Sins Passions

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart

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

Morality Inspirational Intellect Adam And Eve

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

Poverty Unemployment Intellect

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and genero

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

Character Emotion Intellect

Sono cosÃ¬ intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola par

Sono cosÃ¬ intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

Intelligence Intellect Sarcasm Humor

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixtu

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

Experience Ignorance Intellect Huxley

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Education Intellect Enlightenment

Ideas are the source of all things

Ideas are the source of all things

Wisdom Life Knowledge Philosophy Intellect

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

Greatness Intellect

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns,

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect Energy Ethereal Tides Great Public Power Individual Man Life Of The Universe Nature Of Things

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances f

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Beauty Friends Enemies Intellect Looks

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of in

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Pride Anna Karenina Stupidity Intellect Dishonesty Tolstoy Trickery

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in disc

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.

Thought Intellect Daydreaming Reverie

Lord Henry Wotton: I can stand brute force, but brute reason

Lord Henry Wotton: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Humor Funny Reason Force Intellect