Quotes About Intellect

In opening that essay, she wrote, "The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical…." Later in the essay, she adds, "Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactive, stifling. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish.

However well these mild-mannered intellects do on the tests, lack of air time unfairly implies that they are not suited to the rough-and-tumble world of big business. On the contrary, they may be brilliantly equipped to quietly outmaneuver a bombastic opponent, yet as a result of the air time yardstick, they may lose out to peers who tend to be openly aggressive, individualistic, and terror-tested, yet underexposed to teamwork, ego control, soft tactics, and compromise.

Du žmon?s pradeda bod?tis vienas kitu ne tod?l, kad jie b?na drauge fiziškai, - pasak? Lesli vien? vakar?, - o tod?l, kad dvasine ir intelektualine prasme jie neb?na kartu.

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect.

So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Just think what the ordeal must be like for less intellectually robust people, less equipped by education and rhetorical skill than they are, or than Julia Sweeney is, to argue their corner in the face of obdurate family members.

Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it.

Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation.

One of the characteristics of early modern thought was a tendency to assume binary contrasts. In an attempt to define phenomena more exactly, categories of experience that had once co-inhered were now set off against each other: faith and reason, intellect and emotion, and church and state.

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.