Quotes About Intellect

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual force, terribly afraid of sentimentality in myself and others.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Prior to that, the things I had read about in my Buddhist studies seemed to me to be nothing but mythological ruminations and philosophical conjectures, elaborated by scholars with too much time on their hands. Now, for the first time, I realized that they were not just concocting speculations. They were trying to describe something that human beings actually experience. After a couple of weeks, the experience faded into a pleasant memory, but it left me with a permanent intellectual shift.

Thought is just a secretion from our brain.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Every wall was covered with shelves, packed tightly with books on every subject under the sun, and a few best unmentioned in polite company.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

We are not born with wisdom, but we acquire it by reading books.

Quien no quiere pensar es un fanático; quien no puede pensar es un idiota; quien no osa pensar es un cobarde.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.