Quotes About Intellect

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

I can find nothing with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its great capacity. In fact, however acute our intellects may be, they will no more be able to attain to a comprehension of this than to an understanding of God; for, as He Himself says, He created us in His image and likeness.

Our intellects, no matter how sharp, can no more grasp this than they can comprehend God.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

and strategy is the essential intellectual tool for doing so.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.