Quotes About Intellect

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.