Quotes About Intellect

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Take away that reason, and he would be incapable of understanding anything; and, in this case, it would be just as consistent to read even the book called the Bible to a horse as to a man. How, then, is it that those people pretend to reject reason?

There is nothing so absurd which some philosophers have not maintained.

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'.

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human quality; his mind does not become closed to ideas; his intellect does not cease to feed on a free and open interchange of opinions; his yearning for self-respect does not end; nor is his quest for self-realization concluded. If anything, the needs for identity and self-respect are more compelling in the dehumanizing prison environment.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

My novels are all ideas.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.