Quotes About Intellect

Reading well, which means reading actively, is thus not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing.

The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers. It is easy enough to learn the answers. But to develop actively inquisitive minds, alive with real questions, profound questions—that is another story.

The halls of academia are like the halls of a madhouse at midnight.

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding

Os gregos tinham um nome especial nome especial para essa estranha mistura de aprendizado e estupidez - um nome que pode ser aplicado aos literatos ignorantes de todas as eras. Eles chamavam esse fenômeno de sofomania.

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There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well.

to Read a Book was first published in the early months of 1940.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

O ato de empacotar ideias e opiniões intelectuais é uma atividade à qual algumas das mentes mais brilhantes se dedicam com grande diligência.

You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…

Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.

In education, emotions are involved but they're a part of a whole package including intellect. In charismatic leadership, sometimes only the emotions are involved, and I think there is a danger of people, either good or bad people, getting converts on the basis of not really understanding what it is they're going into.

She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.

he liked picking Hector's brains on international subjects, or rather, allowing Hector's brains to flow over him in a glowing lava of thought.

Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.

He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory.

more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

The books awed her by size, thickness, the staggering mass of lines and words to read before she could read all of them. Then having read all of the books must she carry in her head all that knowledge from the books? This too staggered her. Wouldn't my head feel queer? she asked Elder Brewster. Wouldn't my head feel heavy carrying so much knowledge? Could any of it spill out if there was too much?

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, 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.