Quotes About Intellect

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

A library is more precious than a bank.

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.

In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity-our most necessary resourse?

People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But

Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths." He

Within the company, Dodgson presented himself as a researcher, even though he lacked the ability to do original research, and had never done any. His intellect was fundamentally derivative; he never conceived of anything until someone else had thought of it first. He was very good at "developing" research, which meant stealing someone else's work at an early stage. In this, he was without scruple and without peer.

If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance

Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.