Quotes About Intellect

That the movements of God's grace must always be accepted and understood in virtue of the life of faith, because ultimately the truth of every mysterious action of his grace is discerned in the light of faith rather than by the powers of reason or of intellect.

A brain the size of a planet," said Aristide, "and you're as fucked by Sartre as the rest of us.

Die Bibliotie ist die größtmögliche Form der Ignoranz gegenüber Büchern. Biblioten lesen nicht nur grundsätzlich keine Bücher, sondern leugnen sogar schlankweg ihre Existenz!

Sich daran zu erinnern, wo das Erinnerungsvermögen liegt, das kann einem auch nur in einem cerebralen Cortex passieren.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

La potencia intelectual de un hombre se mide por la dosis de humor que es capaz de utilizar. NIETZSCHE

La duda progresista (no retardataria) y bien manejada induce un sentido de modestia y es un buen remedio, si no el mejor, para la testarudez. No ser presuntuoso de las propias creencias, valores o ideología nos exime de la vanidad intelectual y el desgaste que implica querer siempre tener razón.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer observed that questions "are the engines of intellect5—cerebral machines that convert curiosity into controlled inquiry.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

Man may think human intellect and reasoning are almighty, that the brain is able to comprehend all truths of the world; but the verdict of God's Word is, "vanity of vanities.

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Use your thoughts so you don't atrophy the brain.

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged.

A los que evitan el pecado de la pereza intelectual podríamos llamarlos «diligentes». Están más alerta, son intelectualmente más activos, están menos dispuestos a quedarse satisfechos con respuestas superficialmente sugerentes, y son más escépticos con sus intuiciones.

These students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind.

Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time.