Quotes About Intellect

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.