The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
Siri HustvedtTag: life understanding personality intellect
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.
Madeleine L'EngleTag: wisdom imagination mind brain intellect contradiction
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
Margaret MitchellTag: intelligence intellect femininity
Tag: philosophy philosophical intellect limitations lucidity
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
William JamesTag: spirituality abstraction intellect
I only know that I know nothing
SocratesTag: wisdom knowledge philosophy intellect creative-thinking
Ideas are the source of all things
PlatoTag: wisdom life knowledge philosophy intellect
My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.
Oscar WildeTag: imagination shallow failure intellect loyalty
It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.
C.S. LewisTag: emotion character intellect
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Leo TolstoyTag: stupidity pride intellect tolstoy dishonesty anna-karenina trickery
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