Quotes About Intellect

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.

Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred

There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.

But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect.

ÖÄŸrenmek demek ufkunuzu geniÅŸletmek, daha fazla ÅŸey yaÅŸamak ve kendinize farkl? yaÅŸam alanlar? yaratmak demektir. ... Bilgi yaln?zca güç deÄŸildir; bilgi mutluluktur ve bilginin size öÄŸretilmesi ise entelektüel manada, sevilmekle eÅŸdeÄŸerdir.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Reflexionó unos segundos, mirando a la mujer sentada frente a él y sintiendo que ella podía hacer su desierto menos parecido a un destierro. Se acordó de la otra mujer que trató unos años atrás, pero la borró de su mente con un esfuerzo deliberado. Si alguna vez encontraba otra compañera, tenía que ser una que conociera y comprendiera lo que era el saber, la erudición, y lo que todo ello exigía de una persona.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

There was no defense against the shells, he said, but they had calculated that three volumes of philosophy could stop bullets.

He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Animals feed, man eats; die man of intellect alone knows how to eat.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Books think for me.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.