Quotes About Intellect

Intellectual achievements are the result of thought con- secrated to the search for knowledge or for the beauti- ful and true in nature. Such achievements may some- times be connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the outcome of those characteristics. They are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and unselfish thoughts.

You win. You're the philosopher.

It is very nearly impossible . . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. --"They Can't Turn Back," in Mademoiselle (New York, Aug. 1960; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985)     The

Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.

It is sometimes wise to be abstract.

Thinking generates entropy.")

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

To achieve, you need thought

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

Having a nice library doesn't make you smart. Don't buy books and stack them up in your library