68 quotes found
“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”
“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life...”
“Ideas are the source of all things”
“The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life...”
“I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.”
“Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.”
“The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.”
“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”
“No matter what it is, if you dont move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must wor...”
“Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the int...”
“There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.”
“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
“Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.”
“All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are...”
“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 ...”
“To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasnt it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.”
“The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.”
“Muscle is good, but craft is better”
“Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the intellectual plane, it was clear that his desire was, by this prolonged tickling, to bring me to an ...”
