Quotes About Intellect

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.

The greatest possessions I leave for my children are books.

The greatest treasures are books.

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

the Universal Law manipulates people and things in accordance with the energy we generate in our thought world through the use we make by our intellect of our inspirational, intuitional and revelational faculties.

Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism.

scholars—scholarship without erudition and natural curiosity can close your mind and lead to the fragmentation of disciplines.

Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.

an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the

Once in a while you encounter members of the human species with so much intellectual superiority that they can change their minds effortlessly.

in spite of having spent some time in libraries I feel that I am truly an amateur in the subject matter).

One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the writing of another but that the literary intellectual would not be able to tell the difference between lines jotted down by a scientist and those by a glib nonscientist.