Quotes About Intellect

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

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

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

the personality of the man is two-thirds, and his intellect, his words, are but one-third. It is the real man, the personality of the man, that runs through us.

It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.