intellect quotes

• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. (Arthur Schopenhauer) [intellect]
• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. (John Milton) [books/life/intellect]
• God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. (Francis Bacon) [god/exercise/intellect]
• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. (Walter Benjamin) [matter/time/intellect/]
• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy. (William Blake) [men/pleasure/intellect/fool]
• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. (James Callaghan) [people/experience/intellect]
• If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. (Thomas Carlyle) [strange/trade/intellect/sale]
• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [intellect]
• We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Albert Einstein) [take/care/intellect/god]
• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect/books]
• Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect]
• Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [sorrow/intellect]
• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect/understanding/english/honesty]
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [character/intellect/willpower/think]
• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. (Benjamin Franklin) [interest/intellect]
• We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [intellect]
• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [intellect/intellect]
• I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. (Hermann Hesse) [time/intellect/eyes/stomach]
• In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [willpower/intellect]
• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. (Victor Hugo) [intellect/pleasure]
• The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [intellect]
• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. (Charles Lamb) [intellect]
• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. (John Major) [politics/intellect/patience/politics]
• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. (John Milton) [books/life/intellect]
• The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. (Ezra Pound) [intellect/nice/people/take]
• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. (John Ruskin) [skill/experience/intellect/pleasure]
• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. (George Santayana) [chastity/intellect]

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