Quotes About Intellect

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

Reason is not automatic, those who deny it cannot be conquered by it

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra's were—for vision, ambition, intellect—universally female.

He was the world-renowned tamer of lightning, the man who had disarmed the heavens, who had vanquished superstition with reason.

he was at home whenever he could quench his thirst for knowledge;...

Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?

The Mysteries are teachings that cannot be grasped by the intellect alone, but only by the deep mind made accessible in trance. They may be conveyed by an object—a shaft of wheat, as in the Eleusinian Mysteries—by a key phrase, or symbol. The secret itself may be meaningless when out of context: only within the framework of the ritual does it take on its illuminating power.

We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.

But most of them, as you may have insinuated, Gine, do nothing but rehash their education, look up the theories of their predecessors, and debate them afresh.

The triumph of my logic gives me no pleasure.

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.

I am no fan of books.

What surer guaranty can the capitalist find for the security of his investments, than is to be found in the sense of a community morally and intellectually enlightened?

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.