Quotes About Intellect

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Great intellects are skeptical.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of the negative ego.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

True happiness is in the mind and finding it is all about transforming your intellect, emotions and attitudes. True happiness is mental peace.

La vida de la mente, piensa para sí: ¿a eso es a lo que nos hemos dedicado, yo y esos otros trotamundos solitarios en las entrañas del British Museum? ¿Nos espera alguna recompensa? ¿Se disipará nuestra soledad, o la vida de la mente es en sí misma una recompensa?

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

I had lost my respect for rationality long ago. The intellect is not the tool for discerning the future, it never has been and it never will be. It ranks somewhere behind random guessing and answering every question with the statement 'It'll be fine.