Quotes About Intellect

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Honestly, Mum, how can you say someone's a great writer if you've got a stack of reference books next to you? It's just showing off. If I behaved like that in front of other people, you'd totally tell me off when we got home. So.why is it alright for T. S. Eliot to swagger about like a complete know it all and make the rest of us feel stupid?

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

He never went out without a book under his arm and he often came home with two.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science and wisdom grows thin.

Abstruse speculations contain vertigo.

Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.

Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l'auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient -le mot n'est pas trop vaste- au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l'un des deux droits, le droit de l'écrivain et le droit de l'esprit humain, devait être sacrifié, ce serait, certes, le droit de l'écrivain, car l'intérêt public est notre préoccupation unique, et tous, je le déclare, doivent passer avant nous.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry

While she respected his intellect, sometimes his inability to err could be stifling. It left no room for Inès to have thoughts or opinions that differed from his.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

The head can't long act the part of the heart.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

His intellect might be a weapon, his worldliness his shield.

Books think for me.

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

The compliments of a king are of themselves sufficient to pervert your intellect.

He that reads, be it on yon Kindle or on yon book made from pulp, is he who shall not be called a jackass.

And what do you like to do, little man?" "I like-books," James had said. While standing in the bookshop, with a parcel of books under his arm. The lady had given him a pitying look. "I read-erm-rather a lot," James went on, dreary master of the obvious. King of the obvious. Emperor of the obvious.

You have a decent brain, you just keep it in mothballs all the time." "You

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.