Quotes About Intellect

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?