Quotes About Intellect

Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes (showing 1-1 of 1) sort by ? top up up position down down ? bottom Remove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer "We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Wir sind eben bloß zeitliche, endliche, vergängliche, traumartige, wie Schatten vorüberfliegende Wesen. Und was sollte denen ein Intellekt, der unendliche, ewige, absolute Verhältnisse fasste?

To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to explain, such, for example, as infinite and finite, sensuous and supersensuous, the Idea of being, Ideas of reason, the Absolute

Nossa vaidade congênita, especialmente suscetível em tudo o que diz respeito à capacidade intelectual, não quer aceitar que aquilo que num primeiro momento sustentávamos como verdadeiro se mostre falso, e verdadeiro aquilo que o adversário sustentava.

Bref, très peu de gens savent réfléchir, mais tous veulent avoir des opinion ;

Students, and learned persons of all sorts and every age, aim as a rule at acquiring information rather than insight. They pique themselves upon knowing about everything—stones, plants, battles, experiments, and all the books in existence. It never occurs to them that information is only a means of insight, and in itself of little or no value.

Quando procuramos estimular a nossa inteligência e o nosso conhecimento, sentimos constantemente a resistência da época como um peso que devemos arrastar, mas que, apesar de todo o nosso esforço, insiste em manter-se no chão.

O horizonte intelectual do homem normal pode até ultrapassar o do animal - cuja existência, sem nenhuma consciência do futuro e do passado, é inteiramente presente -, mas não está tão distante deste quanto se supõe.

Leer es pensar con la cabeza de otro en lugar de con la propia.

Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.

Pseudo-philosophers, on the contrary, use speech, not indeed to conceal their thoughts, as M. de Talleyrand has it, but rather to conceal the absence of them

Viceversa ogni causalità, perciò ogni materia, e quindi l'intera realtà esiste soltanto per l'intelletto, mediante l'intelletto, nell'intelletto. La prima, più semplice, sempre presente manifestazione dell'intelletto è l'intuizione del mondo reale: questa non è altro se non conoscenza della causa dall'effetto: perciò ogni intuizione è intellettuale

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.

Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient.

Só quando a verdade for adquirida por seu próprio pensamento, através dos esforços de seu intelecto, ela se torna membro de seu próprio corpo, e só essa verdade realmente nos pertence.

It's a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate.

Om bhur bhuvah svaha Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat O God, thou art the giver of life, Remover of pain and sorrow, Bestower of happiness, O Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light, May thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

History has been unkind to Ambedkar. First it contained him, and then it glorified him. It has made him India's Leader of the Untouchables, the King of the Ghetto. It has hidden away his writings. It has stripped away the radical intellect and the searing insolence.

The discussions were sparsely attended and mostly went over my head:

At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.