Quotes About Intellect

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Entrepreneur should never forget that better to be lucky than smart. So many times it is not the intellect that wins.

Saya tidak tahu Saudara siapa, tetapi saya sangat mengharapkan agar Saudara-lah yang nanti mengontrak saya. Saya suka kepada Saudara karena Saudara kadang-kadang membaca cerita pendek--oleh karena itu, tentunya melek huruf, sabar, cerdas, berpengetahuan luas, dan intelek, hanya saja tidak mampu membeli rumah.

Oh, yes," Anna said. "I would like to know what measures you advocate." He stood a little straighter. "The first problem is the influx of the worst of Europe. The moral and intellectual dregs must be turned away. If such a policy had been put in place at the right time, Michael and Dylan Joyce would have been born in Ireland, and feeding them would not fall to us.

During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

The annoying part of wanting to know everything about everything is that it somehow always results in only knowing something about something

The imagination is not somehow divorced from reason or the intellect: it's one of the primary ways we learn. I'm indebted to a literary colleague of mine for suggesting that in classical tradition, the imagination is considered "the mind's eye" (emphasis on mind), an actual faculty of the intellect.

imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.

Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.