Intellects Quotes
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Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowlyand surely drew their plans against us.
— 1898 TheWar of theWorlds, bk.1, ch.1.
Yet, if such a being, who reversed the maxim nihil humani me alienum puto [nothing human is foreign to me], cannot be loved, as little can he be abhorred or despised. He was, in spite of the atrophy or non development of many of the faculties which are found in those in whom the "elements are kindly mixed," as truly a genius as the mere poets, painters, and musicians, with small intellects and hearts and large imaginations, to whom the world is so willing to bend the knee. He is more to be wondered at than blamed.
henry cavendish— George Wilson, The Life of the Honble Henry Cavendish (1851) p.185
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
Oliver Goldsmith— Ch. 7. (The Vicar of Wakefield (1766))
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
william winwood reade— "Liberty", p. 314
Our intellects are not impartial observers of the world but active participants in it.
john n. gray— The Deception: Schopenhauer's Crux (p. 44)
There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going."
samuel johnson— 1783, p. 501.
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!
albert pike— Ch. II : The Fellow-Craft, p. 43
Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope— Rachel Ray, ch. 11. (1863)
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Chapter VII.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
— Karl Marx, in Das Kapital (1867) Vol. I, Ch. 16, as translated by Ben Fowkes
India had the start of the whole world in the beginning of things. She had the first civilization; she had the first accumulation of material wealth; she was populous with deep thinkers and subtle intellects; she had mines, and woods, and a fruitful soul.
mark twain— Through Indian Eyes (1995)
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.
Louis Pasteur— p. 114 (The life of Pasteur (1902))
Meeting and visiting brothers, even if little, causes the development and maturity of intellects.
— Misnad al-Im?m al-Jaw?d, p.242
