Quotes About Intellect

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

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

Sapevamo che se la comprensione del testo è una dura e solitaria conquista della mente, la frase scema stabilisce invece una connivenza riposante che può esistere solo tra amici intimi. Soltanto con gli amici più stretti ci raccontiamo le storielle più stupide, come per rendere un implicito omaggio alla loro raffinatezza intellettuale. Con gli altri facciamo i brillanti, sfoggiamo il nostro sapere, ce la tiriamo, seduciamo.

Quando si è assaggiato il fascino e il conforto della grande letteratura, se ne vuole sempre di più. Si comincia allora a leggere per proprio conto...

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

[Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.

Intellect and intuition must accommodate each others differing functions, embracing a partnership in which they work together as a creative team.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

The Socratic-Platonic psychê, in other words, is none other than the literate intellect, that part of the self that is born and strengthened in relation to the written letters.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

They are the most disagreeable of people. … Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.

Kierkegaard wrote of "eternal consciousness"; the French sociologist Émile Durkheim of "collective consciousness"; the British writer H. G. Wells of a "world brain"; the French philosopher Edouard Le Roy of the "noosphere"—which the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called a "new skin" on the earth.

The file cabinets in my head are never-ending rows of knowledge and creativity.

Woe to our time, for the study of letters has perished from among us.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

It was his fifth son and namesake, Sam, thirteen at the time of his father's death, who could lose himself in the shelves of books even to the detriment of his formal education.

I need a witch... I need a nerd... I need a...a librarian!