Great Throughts Treasury

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Art | Intelligence | Safe |

Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Effort | Intelligence | Strength |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Contrast | Intelligence | Child |

Christopher R. Phillips

An integral part of possessing a genuine moral clarity may be to recognize that rarely, if ever, does any moral situation boil down to an instance of absolute good versus absolute evil...Genuine moral clarity involves ceaseless and rigorous questioning and evaluation of one's works and deeds and ends in life, and the means one chooses to realize one's works and deeds and ends.

Absolute | Deeds | Ends | Evil | Good | Life | Life | Means | Deeds |

P. D. Premasiri, fully Pahalawattage Don Premasiri

Fanaticism and intolerance often result from the delusion that, "this alone is the truth and everything else is false," causing people to commit atrocities in the name of "truth."

Delusion | Fanaticism | Intolerance | People | Truth |

Alexis Carrel

The organs are correlated by the organic fluids and the nervous system. Each element of the body adjusts itself to the others, and the others to it. This mode of adaptation is essentially teleological. If we attribute to tissues an intelligence of the same kind as ours, as mechanists and vitalists do, the physiological processes appear to associate together in view of the end to be attained. The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, and the future as well as the present.

Body | Existence | Future | Intelligence | Mind | Organic | Present | Space | System | Time |

Alexis Carrel

Married love is a creative enterprise. It is not achieved by accident or instinct. Perfunctory coitus is a confession of lack of intelligence and character. There is a profound beauty and even holiness in the act of fecundation.

Accident | Beauty | Character | Instinct | Intelligence | Love | Beauty |

Alexis Carrel

If we attribute an intelligence of the same kind as ours, as mechanists and vitalists do, the physiological processes appear to associate together in view of the end to be attained. The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present.

Body | Existence | Future | Intelligence | Mind | Present | Space | Time |

Alfred North Whitehead

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hardheaded clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions.

Ideas | Intelligence | Study | Superstition |

Alexis Carrel

It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives along it.

Action | Faith | Intelligence | Men | Reason |

André Gide, fully André Paul Guillaume Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Intelligence |

Arthur Compton, fully Arthur Holly Compton

I should be inclined to claim that the person who limits his interests to the means of living without consideration of the content or meaning of his life is defeating God's great purpose when he brought into existence a creature with the intelligence and godlike powers that are found in man. It is in living wisely and fully that one's soul grows.

Consideration | Existence | God | Intelligence | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Means | Purpose | Purpose | Soul |

Arthur C Clarke, formally Sir Arthur Charles Clark

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Intelligence | Survival |