Quotes About Intellect

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

Engineering stimulates the mind.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

I never stopped reading.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

You will only have copyright in a society that places a very high value on the individual, the individual intellect, the products of individual intellect.

Ah, college, when you could occasionally get a date through the judicious application of English-major bullshit.

Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel de Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell.

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.