Quotes About Intellect

He had the cast of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even eagerness, to consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys.

There was also a bottom shelf piled up with cheap editions of detective novels. Chips enjoyed these. Sometimes he took down Vergil or Xenophon and read for a few moments, but he was soon back again with Doctor Thorndyke or Inspector French.

Have read little and understood less.

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides

After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.

Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.

Thought is a thought of thought

Me dice que tengo unas ideas muy raras y que he leído demasiado. Falso. he leído poco y entendido menos.

Thinking is not yet fully understood.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

2.49) O Arjuna, action is very much inferior to the yoga of the intellect (buddhiyoga). Seek refuge in the intellect! Wretched are they who are motivated by results.

The greatest known power in the universe is the resilience of man coupled with his intellect. He tinkers and tests and fights through to solutions.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.