Quotes About Intellect

What I know intellectually doesn't change how I feel emotionally." She

The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt's notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of "over-civilization," code for effeminacy. The true man, in this worldview, was a rugged individualist, physically fit as well as intellectually cultured, as equally at home leading men into battle or shooting big game on the prairie as chatting with the ladies in the salon.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

Enlightenment is man's exit from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one's intellect without the direction of another…. 'Sapere aude! (Dare to know!)' … 'Have the courage to make use of your own intellect!' is hence the motto of enlightenment" (Kant 1784/2006, 17).

a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody

I will read four or five books at the same time.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.

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.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

A man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over a man who can't them