Quotes About Intellect

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

A scholar's pen is more valuable than a warrior's sword.

Wisdom is the mind's currency.

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

Wisdom is the adobe of a great mind.

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I've always been kind of an information sponge.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.