Quotes About Intellect

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

The idea that life is essentially based on intellect, and that intellect is accepted in practical life as the most valuable of our mental energies, goes hand in hand with the growth of a money economy.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

But in the complicated parts of formal logic it is always one order of magnitude harder to tell what an object can do than to produce the object.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.

The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius.

When she looked at him with those dark eyes, Nassar felt the urge to say something intelligent and deeply impressive. Unfortunately, nothing of the kind came to mind.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

Immanuel Kant

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

Habe den Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen.

There are such manifold forms of nature; there are many modifications of the general transcendental concepts of nature that are left undetermined by the laws furnished by pure intellect a priori because these laws only concern the general possibility of nature as an object of the senses.

reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design;

Non ho il genio della lite diceva. Indro Montanelli racconta Carlo Cattaneo

Enormous vistas of thought were unrolling in my mind.