Quotes About Intellect

recalled a quote I picked up somewhere: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

The faculty of rationality inclines dangerously to pride: all I know is all that needs to be known. Pride falls in love with its own creations, and tries to make them absolute.

And so a generation has been raised untutored in what was once called, aptly, "practical wisdom," which guided previous generations. Millennials, often told they have received the finest education available anywhere, have actually suffered a form of serious intellectual and moral neglect.

To do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason.

Te haré sentir todos los placeres, pero no puedo hacerte pensar.

Theorists are a smart bunch (in theory),

Los habitantes de Cuévano suelen mirar a su alrededor y después concluir: —Modestia aparte, somos la Atenas de por aquí.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Atención porque cambiar de opinión debido a una nueva comprensión, y más si llega con gozo intelectual incluido, no es una muestra de debilidad ni supone una merma en la credibilidad del intelectual sino, más bien, lo contrario, una muestra de fuerza y una garantía de de credibilidad.

O homem médio tem "ideias" dentro de si, mas carece da função de idear.

La libertad de espíritu (...) se mide por su capacidad de disociar ideas tradicionalmente inseparables

La cultura es el fruto de la curiosidad, de esa inquietud misteriosa que invita a mirar el fondo de todos los abismos.

Repudian las cosas líricas porque obligan a pensamientos muy altos y a gestos demasiado dignos.

Los elementos intelectuales no bastan para determinar su orientación; la febledad del carácter depende tanto de la consistencia moral como de aquéllos, o más. Sin algún ingenio, es imposible ascender por los senderos de la virtud; sin alguna virtud son inaccesibles los del ingenio. En la acción van de consumo. La fuerza de las creencias está en no ser puramente racionales; pensamos con el corazón y con la cabeza.

Las nociones mal digeridas sólo sirven para atorar el entendimiento. Pueblan su memoria

La curiosidad intelectual es la negación de todos los dogmas y la fuerza motriz del libre examen

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that "you are what you eat," but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.