Quotes About Intellect

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.