Quotes About Intellect

He suffered no regret, no horror, and yet he suffered something, some incoherent abstract crawling of the flesh and shuddering of the intellect. As if the woman had begun to devour him alive. Or as if he himself, discovering in himself some hidden vault, had opened the door and, let forth monsters.

Intellect itself had become paramount, and God simply the clue and excuse for its dreams.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

active acceptance" of God's will: to question with one's mind, to understand with one's intelligence, and to submit with one's heart.

No leer es dar la espalda a las mentes más sabias.

I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.

I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don't know what it is like to feel rapturous joy.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

the literature student has learned to inquire, to question, to interpret, to critique, to compare, to research, to argue, to sift, to analyze, to shape, to express. His intellect can be put to broad use. The computer major, by contrast, is a technician - a plumber clutching a single, albeit shining, box of tools.

That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

There's nothing that people rebel more against, I told Jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human beings have over them. There's maybe nothing more common, routine. A savage power, as indifferent as a thunderbolt, where intellect, merit, beauty, language are nothing but animal electricity, a polarity that suddenly develops. Falling under the spell. Forever. We never talk about it—it's taboo.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

Ah –dijo Oliveira. –Tiene un gato y muchísimos libros.

En konkreto, Abila Sanhes fue ombre de pensamiento y aksión, de moral i de kultura. Esto son las partidas de su aber.

Tenía un interés tal en la educación que cualquier conocimiento nuevo, por arcano o trivial que fuera, lo llevaba a la luna.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

Según él, las almas ególatras como la de ella son incomprendidas e incluso odiadas por los fundamentalistas de la normalidad, que carecen de la fortaleza espiritual necesaria para poner en práctica el feroz narcisismo que deben poseer los humanos intelectualmente superiores.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

As spiritual seekers, we know that the objective knowledge we require cannot be constructed by human intellect alone. Intellect can perform many useful functions; it can divide, critique, and negate, but intellect is not the source of inspired knowledge about the purpose of life. Intellectual conjecture too often leads only to a labyrinth of opinion. Rather it is the heart that is the seat of true knowing. (p. 53)

Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.

Students felt free to interrupt Oppie with a question. "He generally would answer patiently," Geurjoy said, "unless the question was manifestly stupid, in which event his response was likely to be quite caustic.

decompression chamber for scholars.

He was an idea man," recalled Phillips. "He never did any great physics, but look at all the lovely ideas that he worked out with his students.

I need physics more than friends," he confessed to Frank in the autumn of 1929.