Quotes About Intellect

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Hatred and bigotry, both of which are the bitter fruits of pride, are self-encapsulating prisons, locking the intellect within the constraining confines of the self-centered ego. There is no way out of this prison of pride without the key provided by God-given grace.

There is, first, the actual intention, operating with the full advertence of the intellect. When a minister wishes here and now to confer, e. g., the Sacrament of Baptism, he has an actual intention. Secondly, there is the virtual intention. Its force is borrowed from a previous volition, which is accounted as continuing in some result produced by it. Thus, if a

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

All thinking men are atheists.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Heutzutage trifft man gewöhnlich Leute, in denen der Typus vorwiegt, dem man anmerkt, dass er nur ein Buch gelesen hat.

Uno scrittore al suo meglio istiga alla lettura e qualche volta anche alla scrittura. Pasolini mi istigava a formarmi un'opinione in disaccordo con lui. Era un intellettuale, la cui funzione è quella di rasentare i confini di un pensiero, fornendo così al lettore il perimetro dell'argomento.

That there are degrees in the knowledge of rational beings, and also in their capacities to acquire it, cannot be disputed, as it is so very obvious among mankind.

J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.

J'ai reçu assez de dons intellectuels pour pouvoir tout sonder, tout aborder, tout saisir en formules claires ; on me croit supérieurement informée de bien des problèmes de la vie ; pourtant, là, tout au fond de moi, il y a une pelote agglutinée, quelque chose me retient dans une poigne de fer, et toute ma clarté de pensée ne m'empêche pas d'être bien souvent une pauvre godiche peureuse.

That is your disease: you want to capture life in formulas of your own. You want to embrace all aspects of life with your intellect instead of allowing yourself to be embraced by life. You want to create the world all over again each time, instead of enjoying it as it is.

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.

Even these two luckier fragmentary translations, now surviving only as curios in a few libraries, attest the vehemence and concertedness of the effort to suppress this great gift of Sue's intellect to the human race. It will be thus no longer.

People who don't read are brutes.

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has made a thing that should have enough information in it in the way it's constructed to start thinking about why that picture got made - not why it is relevant to you.

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.