Quotes About Intellect

The silliest questions are those seeking to be "deep" and/or "intelligent" and that, in fact, are absolutely hollow and stupid. For example: "What do you think is the situation of the Latin American intellectual?" What can I say in response to such generalities? My answer: "I do not know, nor do I care to know.

only bookworms get excited over other bookworms

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Brains were no good to a working man; they only made him discontented and saucy and lose his jobs. She'd seen it happen again and again.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

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He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.

The female mind is a different thing altogether," he added quickly, "and quite delightful in its own right! But too much intellect would spoil and flatten it, like a rock in a soufflé.

You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.

The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.

The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.

Many evidences and arguments suggest God's existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

As we grow and go forward, our master Creator may be wooing you instinctively into a place where your intellect can flourish and your heart can rest.

The true insight after all is love. It clarifies the intellect, and opens the eyes to much that was obscure.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views simultaneously and still be able to operate. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with