My intellect was my greatest vanity.
Dan SimmonsTags: vanity intellectuals intellect intellectualism
The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Raheel FarooqTags: knowledge learning philosophy epistemology intuition intellect
Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor laughter characteristics intellect intellectual jokes geek-humor geek
God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.
Damon HorowitzTags: education passion intellect industry careers humanities
The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.
James RozoffTags: perception reality intellect
The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress
Edgar Allan PoeTags: intellect inertia mind-power
The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition become harmonized in an order encompassing all the means available to man to know, from sensual knowledge an reason to intellection and inner version or the "knowledge of the heart.
Seyyed Hossein NasrTags: knowledge intuition islam intellect
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Charles DarwinTags: arts music poetry emotions taste intellect stimulation character-building
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
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