Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.
Dan BrownTags: intellect research lost-symbol
...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
Hermann HesseTags: soul intellect siddhartha restlessness hesse
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise PascalTags: originality intellect
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
Mark TwainTags: inspirational morality intellect adam-and-eve
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
Jim ButcherTags: intellect instinct harry-dresden
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
Niccolò MachiavelliTags: intelligence knowledge philosophy comprehension intellect use
Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.
Joseph A. SchumpeterThe 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. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: philosophy intellect
As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name—the Haskalah—for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher rebbe.) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them how to think also.
Christopher HitchensTags: life education ethics evil christianity religion atheism thought antisemitism islam intellect prohibitions enlightenment rabbis voltaire exile study free-thought germans judaism prophecy old-testament assimilation plagiarism return 18th-century monotheism rituals dialectics chabad-messianism haskalah isaiah-berlin menachem-mendel-schneerson messianism moses-mendelssohn rebbes
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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