Quotes About Intellect

to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

Hamlet said, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space." I think what he meant was that although we humans are very limited physically, particularly in my own case, our minds are free to explore the whole universe, and to boldly go where even Star Trek fears to tread.

philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.

I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.

Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sólo porque yo solía escribirlos. Los lectores de libros están tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversación con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahí.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Scottish philosopher William Drummond, read: "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not reason is a slave.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason. We all need to take a cold hard look at the evidence and see reasoning for what it is.

Please, son, listen: intellectual vigor and humanity don't always go together. One can be an A student but a D person. And you have the drive. I need someone with drive . And you, dear. You're his soulmate in every way.

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.