Quotes About Intellect

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Educated men are so impressive.

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Beware of a man of one book.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man