Quotes About Intellect

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage the man who can't read them

Omul care nu citeÈ™te c?rÈ›i nu are niciun avantaj în faÈ›a omului care nu le poate citi.

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull." Sherlock

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

Se diría que habita en su persona la pasión por el conocimiento detallado y preciso.

a man's brain originally is 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 which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

El conocimiento siempre da más conocimiento, del mismo modo que el dinero da más interés.

Nada es pequeño para las grandes mentes

Hay más en un cerebro que en su bolsillo»

The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True