Quotes About Intellect

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.