Quotes About Intellect

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.

Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value

Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit...

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

It is generally accepted that getting rich is the only and typical goal of the Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth. Riches are to him merely a stepping stone, a means to the true end, and in no sense the real goal. The real determination of the Jew is to rise to a higher cultural plane in the intellectual world.

The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up to the fifteenth year, almost every child belonging to a well-to-do family envies its proletarian schoolmates, to whom so many things are permissible which for the "respectable" are placed under taboo.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

chess is a game of pure thought involving no element of chance

Nel suo superno mondo dei libri, non c'era guerra, non c'erano malintesi: c'era solo l'eterno sapere e voler sempre più sapere in fatto di numeri e parole, di titoli e nomi.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.