Quotes About Intellect

like me, you prefer the company of fine books to that of other people.

Love, sex, family, the pleasures of food, intellectual delight, friendship, appreciation of beauty, the pleasure of exercise and good health, the excitement of sport and adventure -- all these qualities were given to us, not by God, but by evolution.

It encourages us to develop evolution's greatest gift to us: our intellects. It instructs us to appreciate this life as fully as possible, because we will never have another. This, then, is my religion.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

2. They were endowed abundantly with the natural gifts of intellect and foresight, and with the faculties of the arts, sciences and culture. " 'Hearing and seeing' refer to the experimental faculties. And the word 'heart' in Arabic includes intellect, or the rational faculties as well as the instruments of feeling and emotion, the aesthetic faculties."144

"This affair must all be unraveled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little gray cells. It is 'up to them'—as you say over here."

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

He was tired because he had been thinking. Thinking was always exhausting.

The unintelligent have no rights to own anything let alone their own thoughts which they have no choice but to hand over to anyone. Chaos almost certainly ensues in such a case

On contact with sensuous experience, the intellect is able to generate first principles, and, with their help, it gradually builds up what it knows. But it is thus able to construct truth only because it is itself a participation in Truth. The mind is the light of divine truth -- analogically speaking, by way of participation. It is a participated likeness of the uncreated light in which the ideas of all things dwell.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

GRATITUDE is intellectually compelling and it is a very good trait—so why are we so often ungrateful? There are two reasons for this. The first is that a person's first impression is that everything comes by itself, and that it is all coming to him. The other reason is: when I receive good from someone and I recognize that good, I became indebted to him. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach, I don't have that in common with him.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Philosophy is for the few.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.