Quotes About Intellect

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

Except yourself I have never met the man for whom I felt that intimate sympathy (of intellect as well as soul) which is the sole basis of friendship.

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Reality cannot be experienced with the intellect, because the intellect can only think thoughts about reality

Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

Ideas are no one's monopoly - Dhirubhai Ambani

It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

God "has placed in all intellectual beings, as their hidden but primary power, the potentiality of knowing him; ever a generous Lord, he has planted in us lowly men, as part of our nature, the longing and desire for him

Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendor around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

To obey this rule, we must become sleepwalkers. We must not see clearly, think precisely, or remember freely. The amount of creative, intellectual, and sexual energy that is trapped by this need to repress anger and remain unaware of its sources is simply incalculable.

Tsjallingtsjes strenge gezicht was steeds bereid om van de ene seconde op de andere volledig te verschieten in iets totaal anders, alsof in een donkere kamer het licht werd aangedaan. Misschien was het talent tot lachen eigenlijk wel de ware geest, meer dan het vermogen tot intellectuele krachttoeren.

We underestimated human potential, both the strength of man's intellect and the weakness of his flesh, and therefore his receptivity to satanic inspiration -- but ultimately he is our creature, and so what we've really underestimated is our own creativity. What we made has turned out to be more than what we thought we had made. So ultimately in our failure there is a compliment to us: our creativity is greater than ourselves!

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.