Quotes About Intellect

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.