Quotes About Intellect

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories by myself. That was my specialty as a child.

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

it is your identity that manages and determines your intellect.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting.

From the literary point of view, the Koran has little merit. Declamation, repetition, puerility, a lack of logic and coherence strike the unprepared reader at every turn. It is humiliating to the human intellect to think that this mediocre literature has been the subject of innumerable commentaries, and that millions of men are still wasting time in absorbing it." (Orpheus, Salmon Reinach, 1932. See page 175 of the book here)

profesori nisu mogli da se odlu?e da me smatraju'umetnikom'. –On je veoma ozbiljan-govorili su- veoma vešt i uspeva u onome što naumi. Ali, hladan je kao led, u njegovim delima nema emocije, jer on nije li?nost. On je racionalan i, bez sumnje, intelektualac. Za umetnost treba imati srce!

trebalo je da ostarim, a da bih ostario, trebalo je da radim, da se borim, da skupim sve svoje intelektualne i fizi?ke sange kako bih izišao kao pobednik iz ovog krstaškog rata u koji sam pošao da bih osvojio svoju dušu.

I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The dance of the intellect, the dance of wild imagination, illuminates what cannot otherwise be known.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang was a critic of "an educational system that does not offer anything other than limited reading and writing." Beh-Rang

Having Jude is like having a dictionary the size of a man beside me. I open him up and ask him all sorts of questions.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.