Quotes About Intellect

We will not attempt to enumerate the women who are virtuous from stupidity, for it is acknowledged that in love all women have intellect.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

The turnings of thought" (citta-v?tti) refers to the totality of mental processes—conscious, subconscious, and hyperconscious—not simply to the faculties of intellect, recollection, or emotion.

Books} are the bankers of the treasures of the mind.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Every logical act of the intellect is an assertion that something is.

Man has no knowledge of things except by the thoughts present to his mind; that is, he can only know what is thinkable.

Supreme happiness to reason, that is the Ideal of the intellect, is the attainment of certainty upon every subject and about all things.

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

Reason is no match for passion.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

Reality shows aren't for overly educated people.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Henry Louis Gates is such a wealth of knowledge in himself.

The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.