Quotes About Intellect

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Education is no barometer for superstition

I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, anche i nani hanno l'aspetto di giganti.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect.

never let your emotions override your intellect!

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.