Quotes About Intellect

She had always thought of it as being rich, having so many books she has yet to read.

It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.

The academician commonly is more interested in gaining information to swell his or her bag of facts, than to open him or herself up to psycho-spiritual transmutation. This wisdom would be wasted on those whose only interest is to rape wisdom for academic data.

The more complex your lives become with intellectual machinations, piles of paper, and social intrigue, the less you are aware of the Simplicity of the Moment.

Politics may one day be found to be so vulgar as to be described, along with all party and daily journalism, under the heading: 'Prostitution of the Intel lect'.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

The weight of everything he's read settles on him, crushing him to his chair. It is too heavy. He cannot even lift his head.

Seçme hürriyetimizin s?n?rs?z oldu?u tek dünya, kitaplar dünyas?d?r.

Polemik zekalar?n sava??ym??. Zekalar birbiriyle sava?maz.

Orospula?mak veya yaln?z kalmak: ??te fikir adam?n?n kaderi.

The skandhas present a complete picture of ego. According to Buddhist psychology, the ego is simply a collection of skandhas or heaps—but actually there is no such thing as ego. It is a brilliant work of art, a product of the intellect, which says, "Let's give all this a name. Let's call it 'I.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

These three—fellowship, the Word, and prayer—will enable the believer to experience the new life in his heart: in his intellect, emotions, will, and spiritual life.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

what really distinguishes us from apes is not the opposable thumb but the ability to hold in mind opposing ideas, a distinction we should probably try to preserve.

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.