Quotes About Intellect

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying, 'Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.

An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Valahányszor szóra nyitja az ajkát ez az ember, kopernikuszi fordulatot vesz a nyugati gondolkodás rendszere.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946)

Ah—that's the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

Grace is the breath of God—an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. It is not only possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force, grace is immediately accessible to us along with the courage to follow divine guidance.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

La mente es como un tapiz ricamente tejido en el que los colores son dados por la experiencia de los sentimientos y el diseño por las operaciones del intelecto. La mente del soldado Williams se hallaba impregnada de diversos colores de extraños tonos, pero carecía de diseño y forma.

I am a girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?

If he had two thoughts at the same time, they would throw a surprise party. Martin Bartel regarding a less than stellar intellect, to his wife Roe Teagarden in A Fool and His Honey

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn't read.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

It's all in the mind, you know.

The unfed mind devours itself.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.