Quotes About Intellect

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

I like doing scholarship for its own sake.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

I'm not just a scientist.

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time and also a fine human beings. He used his extraordinary juristic and intellectual gifts to help everyone he could and to address all forms of human suffering.

the more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

Leave behind the senses and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intellectual, and all things in the world of being and non-being, that thou mayest arise by unknowing towards the union, as far as it is attainable, with him who transcends all being and all knowledge.

contrast, ancient European access to the experiential world was preformed by grammatical dressage; in fact, in this literacy zone the actual intellectual material offered by the world was formatted according to letter, syllable, line, page, paragraph, and chapter.

Hitler ran through his past achievements, concluding that 'the moment is favourable now'. Never one to be bashful about his own feats, he said, 'As a last factor I must in all modesty name my own person irreplaceable . . . I am convinced of my powers of intellect and decision.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological—but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing. You can't imagine such a being, can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

As far as anyone could tell, Portia had learned to partition its cognitive processes: almost as if it were emulating a larger brain piece by piece, saving the results of one module to feed into the next. Slices of intellect, built and demolished one after another.

Modern ilmin ?üpheci ve kontrolcü zekas?, inanmad?klar?ndan evvel ?imdiye kadar inand?klar?ndan ?üphe etseydi, yirmi senede bir bilgisinin prensiplerini altüst eden ink?laplar kar??s?nda ?a??rmazd?.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought. To

Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Reading is the king of subjects. Math and science, writing and social studies -- they all depend on it. It's the most important thing children learn in school.