Quotes About Intellect

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

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A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Reading Is To The Mind What Exercis Is To The Body .

It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects.

Por esa época, José Cadalso Vásquez escribe: <>. Se refiere, por supuesto, a la vigilancia impuesta por la Santa Inquisición sobre el intelecto — y la sexualidad—de los españoles — y también de los americanos—

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals -- only of his rights.

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

In Greek, phren has as its secondary meaning "the mind, as the seat of the intellect or the heart as the seat of the passions.

Modernist design at large has housed the intellect and the eye, but it has left the body and the other senses, as well as our memories, imagination and dreams, homeless.

Sanatsal d??avurum, dünyan?n söz-öncesi anlamlar?yla, basitçe entelektüel olarak anla??lmaktan ziyade bedenle bütünle?mi? ve ya?anm?? anlamlarla, iç içedir.

Das Gefühl ist jedenfalls ein schlechter Berater. Es besitzt per definitionem keine Allgemeingültigkeit." "Und der Verstand ist eine Illusion", erwidert die ideale Geliebte schnell. "Nichts weiter als ein Kostüm, in das der Mensch die Summe seiner Gefühle steckt." "Du sprichst in romantischen Anachronismen!", ruft Mia. "Und du in jenen intellektuellen Sophistereien, an denen Moritz zugrunde gegangen ist!

We found so much to say, to share, to learn.... For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do.

The one before her was some sort of study, with a wall of books, all leather-bound and smelling like knowledge.

Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.

There are only a handful of educational institutions that can be called emblems of a Thinking India.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

I deeply admire and respect Hillary Clinton. I think she is a great intellect with great fortitude. I think she was a strong secretary of state and a hardworking and effective senator.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.