Quotes About Intellect

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.