Quotes About Intellect

Question the motives of your professors. Pay attention to how they twist the facts, or editorialize during lecture. Ask them questions. Make them defend themselves. Make other students think before they buy into the professorial mindset.

In fact, the Latin root of the word literacy is the same as for the word intellect: leggere, "to read." The source for the word intellectual also gives us its true meaning: inter-leggere, "to read between." An intellectual is defined by an ability to read between the lines, to analyze and to think critically, to understand things on many levels at the same time.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Read much, but not many books!

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Religious rectitude is the sanctuary of the intellectually reticent

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply scholarly thinking to art and culture.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts" .

C'est le destin de la ruse que de paraître trop simple à des savants trop naïfs

The main hindrance is one's own antagonistic frame of mind. All the systems of Yoga in India and every form of religious discipline, worship, or prayer is designed to overcome the barriers posed by the overcritical intellect, by dogma, skepticism, ego, pride, and other recalcitrant traits of the mind.