Quotes About Intellect

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating.

'Dancing in the Dark' is one track. Basically, the song is about connecting with someone mentally, and you're moved so much by the intellect that both of you want to make it physical.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

Learning and receiving revelation must necessarily include both the heart and the mind, or thoughts, and feelings. Intellect alone cannot produce a testimony. You cannot think your way to conversion, because you cannot convince your mind of something your heart does not feel.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him . . . he was a blind man who see better than anyone