#intellect

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later ↗

— Bono

#u #intellect

I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much, Jon Snow. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#intellect #reading #strength #tyrion-lannister #intellect

...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors! ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#letters #psychoanalysis #rimbaud #intellect

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.
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— Jarod Kintz

#forgotten #hard-work #intellect #intellectual #labor

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#commitment #crime #intellectual #theory #virtue

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#feelings #intellect #opinion #ultimately

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#civilized #civilized society #design #everyone #guiding

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#either #founded #history #intellectual #intellectuals

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#exciting #fashions #intellectual #just #ladies