Quotes About Intellect

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

The intellect perpetuates the worldly life.

You can maximize your child's brain power in plenty of wonderful ways. After breast-feeding, focus on open-ended play, lots of verbal interaction, and praising effort—fertilizers statistically guaranteed to boost your child's intellect from almost any starting point.

Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Our relationship with ourselves significantly affects how we interact with other people. Our self-esteem frequently depends on how we feel we are "doing" at relationships. Given that this fluctuates, so does our self-esteem. Intellectually, we may tell ourselves that it shouldn't, but when have emotions ever obeyed the intellect?

The striving fluency of the Hampstead nanny's boy is deceptive and occasionally plausible. With its cultural allusions and cross-references to other disciplines, it is the gab-gift of someone to whom English is an adoptive tongue. Intellect does terrible things to the mind.

Therefore Christian Hedonism is passionately opposed to all attempts to drive a wedge between deep thought and deep feeling. It rejects the common notion that profound reflection dries up fervent affection. It resists the assumption that intense emotion thrives only in the absence of coherent doctrine.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.2.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Great Books Reader is a useful first handbook for facilitating one important virtue: being well-read. Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn't the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of a Great Book; no Christian leader ought to choose illiteracy or intentionally fail to develop the intellectual skills needed to read well.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I guess there are never enough books.