Quotes About Intellect

Speech is generated by the intellect and in turn generates intellect.

I was unable to understand how a perfectly rational argument could meet with such emotional resistance.

This emotional value must be kept in mind and allowed for throughout the whole intellectual process of dream interpretation. It is only too easy to lose this value, because thinking and feeling are so diametrically opposed that thinking almost automatically throws out feeling values and vice versa.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Americans don't read very much.

Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.

None of these students was interested in achieving solely for achieving's sake; rather, they had a natural hunger for intellectual challenge and a flair for transforming their personal interests into exciting projects

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Le Verrier —without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky—had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.

Ingmar Bergman said, "Imagine I throw a spear into the dark. That is my intuition. Then I have to send an expedition into the jungle to find the spear. That is my intellect.

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

We want books. We love books. We live with books.

stacks of reference books spread outward from the corners of the room and toward the center like infectious diseases.

She'd always loved the Holmes stories. And the Watson stories. And even the Moriarty stories.)

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.