Quotes About Intellect

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

Man by Nature desires to know.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.