Quotes About Intellect

As I mentioned, Ardelt and others of her school of thought regard wisdom as combining competence in three areas. One domain is cognitive (relating to knowledge and intellect), the second is affective (relating to compassion and emotion), and the third is reflective—but reflective means something more than mere contemplation.

To believe in God, faith and the importance of religious practice does not involve an abdication of the intellect, a silencing of critical faculties, or believing in six impossible things before breakfast.

Jews became the people whose heroes were teachers, whose citadels were schools, and whose passion was study and the life of the mind.

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

Books, the children of the brain.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Molto spesso l'attività intellettuale della donna si manifesta in un rimuginare il passato chiedendosi che cosa nella propria o nell'altrui esistenza avrebbe dovuto essere fatto diversamente, oppure nel costruire ossessivamente degli artificiosi nessi causali. Questo atteggiamento mentale viene di solito definito pensiero, mentre in realtà non è altro che una forma inutile e improduttiva di attività intellettuale, una specie di autotortura.

ogni autentica preghiera si fonda sulla morte delle potenze, sensibili, intellettuali, volontarie,

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

The blood around men's heart is their thinking.

Dante dice que la alegría es luz intelectual llena de amor, amor de verdad lleno de júbilo, júbilo que trasciende toda dulzura. Descartes,

37) Reconozco que son una perla condensada de Monsieur Teste las frases de Valéry que Derain me ha seleccionado: "No era Monsieur Teste filósofo ni nada por el estilo. Ni siquiera era literato. Y, gracias a eso, pensaba mucho. Cuanto más se escribe, menos se piensa".

Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

Except under dire circumstances or as a day job to support creative endeavors, a smart person is not so likely to want to wait tables, file forms, work on an assembly line, or sell shoes. It isn't that he disparages these lines of work as beneath his dignity; rather, it is that he can see clearly how his days would be experienced as meaningless if he had to spend his time not thinking.

Samuel Wilberforce writes that the "strong friendship was matured, which lasted to the end of life, between the rough coarse philosopher and the genial and accomplished statesman.

Any outstanding dramatic, musical, literary or visual work invariably draws upon powers far beyond our own to lift us onto a plane that is more imaginatively powerful, emotionally thrilling and intellectually stimulating than the mundane one we normally occupy.

Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

As a former student put it: "In a liberry it's hard to avoid reading." When

And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.

privately he considered him a prime specimen of the doomed ruling-class elite. "His intellectual equipment was unimpressive," Philby later wrote, "his knowledge of the world, and views about it, were just what one would expect from a fairly cloistered son of the upper levels of the British establishment.