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What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.

What makes Gnan (Knowledge that frees) work is the pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul), and what makes one wander in the worldly life is agna shakti (energy and power of worldly intellect).

What we know that we know forms our intellect; what we know that we do not know makes our faith; what we do not know that we know constitutes our emotions; and what we do not know that we do not know is our fate.

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.

When circumstantial evidences come together, the mind gets involved in thoughts. The one that has the thoughts is the mind. At that time, the chit (knowledge & vision) goes out, if the work is external, or stays and wanders within, if the work is internal. Intellect gives the decision. Intellect then accepts either the decision of the chit or of the mind and becomes one with it. So then ego endorses it and signs off on it. This is how the parliamentary system (of antahkaran) works.

When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been published only four years before, and the thesis that man was literally a part of nature, rather than an earthy vessel charged with some sublimer stuff, was so novel and so offensive to current metaphysics that it needed the most vigorous defense. Half the civilized world was rudely shocked, the other half skeptically amused. Nearly a century has passed since the Origin shattered the complacency of the Victorian world and initiated what may be called the Darwinian revolution, an upheaval of man's ideas comparable to and probably exceeding in significance the revolution that issued from Copernicus's demonstration that the earth moves around the sun. The theory of evolution was but one of many factors contributing to the destruction of the ancient beliefs; it only toppled over what had already been weakened by centuries of decay, rendered suspect by the assaults of many intellectual disciplines; but it marked the beginning of the end of the era of faith.

When is Gnan said to have manifested? When a state of non-attachment (vitragta) arises. When does vitragta arise? When intellect goes away(diminishes)..

When Richard created the Purple Gentian, the talent for ancient languages that had stunned his schoolmasters at Eton had come to his aid once again. While Sir Percy had pretended to be a fop, Richard bored the French into complacency with long lectures about antiquity. When Frenchmen demanded to know what he was doing in France, and Englishmen reproached him for fraternising with the enemy, Richard opened his eyes wide and proclaimed, ‘But a scholar is a citizen of the world!’ Then he quoted Greek at them. They usually didn’t ask again. Even Gaston Delaroche, the Assistant Minister of Police, who had sworn in blood to be avenged on the Purple Gentian and had the tenacity of…well, of Richard’s mother, had stopped snooping around Richard after being subjected to two particularly knotty passages from the Odyssey.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and Mr Piddington's law of cyclones, Ellis's anatomy and Lewer's midwifery, we have already made ourself half blind. We have become hypnotized by words and names. We think in words and names, not in ideas; the commonplace has triumphed, the true intellect is half crushed.

When we turn the intellect inwards, God manifests as the inner love consciousness.

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.

Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

Who is the main ‘minister’ (component) responsible for proposing a resolution in the antahkaran (inner working complex comprised of the mind, intellect, chit and ego)? There is no main component in there. When the circumstances arise, any one of the four will become the main component to propose a resolution.

Willpower and self-discipline are more effective than intellect and talent.

Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift that can never be bought.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.

Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.