Intelligence Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

14 Intelligence quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge’s Romantic sensibility infuses his thoughts on intellect with imagination. These fourteen verses offer a window into how he saw mental power as both creative and reflective.

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Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance…

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“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from…

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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of…

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind,…

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting…

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher…

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances…

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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