Quotes
Quotes about Intellect
For who would lose,
Though full of pain this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
The march of intellect.
But, oh ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly,--have they not henpeck'd you all?
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,--emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.
On a tree by a river a little tomtit
Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow"
And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sit
Singing ‘Willow, titwillow, titwillow?'
"Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried,
"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"
With a shake of his poor little head he replied,
"Oh, Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
The aesthetic lecture has a purely intellectual appeal, and novel-readers, rightly, cannot bear very much intellectuality
Because we were too intellectual and clever and humanistic to believe in a hell didnât mean that a hell couldnât exist.
There are always intellectuals around who praise the incompetent as profound
In a free society, intellectuals are among the under-privileged. What they offer - as schoolteachers, university lecturers, writers - is not greatly wanted. If they threaten to withdraw their labour, nobody is going to be much disturbed. To refuse to publish a volume of free verse or take a class in structural linguistics - that's not like cutting off the power supplies or stopping the buses
Revolutions are usually the work of disgruntled intellectuals with the gift of the gab ... They go to the barricades in the name of the peasant or the working man. For "intellectuals of the world unite" is not a very inspiring slogan
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
