Quotes About Intellect

You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.

THE MIND OF THIS COUNTRY, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." In 1837, Emerson struck that note mainly as a rhetorical device, in a young nation obviously engaged in building up its intellectual capital.

I can always be tempted by a library.

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.

I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way.

a library is an intricate machine, a contraption of whirring gears.

She cocked her head at me. "You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than that they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a three-dimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

When a young woman discovers her power, both sexual and intellectual, she unleashes her own voice, her righteousness. The first things she has to jettison are the Devil and any religious representation of her gender as stained or subservient. She's just naturally going to be attracted to Goddesses or witches or, as in my case, a scientific understanding of the body and a historical view of sexual politics.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things; — We murder to dissect." — William Wordsworth, "The Tables Turned," Lyrical Ballads, 1798

The goal is to achieve an internal calmness that comes when your intellect and your instincts are operating in harmony.

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.