Quotes About Intellect

to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him—but not to like him.

There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

for a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.

All these potentialities, all these latent powers—we do not possess them, nor do we understand them. Our intellects are far more powerful than yours, but there is something in your minds that has always eluded us.

The worst thing is, they get bored. The disadvantage of overeducation

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.

It is a question of cubic capacity, said he; a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

Nothing is little to a great mind.

I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.

I say now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.