Quotes
Quotes about Intellect
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
The march of intellect.
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun].
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. spoken on the Terry Gross Show .. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.
