Quotes About Intellect

Harvard gave him a volume of Galileo's early writings. He was assigned

Reading," I said. "Books. It's pretty sexy. I like women who read." - Rip

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.

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Learning is my sole delight.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

The punishing of wits enhances their authority.

it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed towards both alike.

O intelecto não é uma luz que arde sem óleo, mas é alimentado pela vontade e pelas paixões.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

The most effective apologist is not one who has the greatest academic prowess alone, but the one who has excellent intellectual preparation and reflects Christ's love in every way.

something to be the case. The act of faith in the biblical sense involves the whole person, emotions, intellect, will and heart, in a total commitment of trust in another.

Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles.

The subject of free will is neither the intellect, nor the will, but both faculties conjointly.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

If you maintain a robust agenda of activities, if you nurture a rich network of relationships, if you intellectually challenge yourself, if you pay attention to your diet, if you exercise regularly and vigorously, if you latch on to a sense of purpose

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man's life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.