Quotes About Intellect

Langdon wondered if maybe Edmond had discovered that human intellect, after aeons of progress, was now on the decline. There were certainly alarming indicators to suggest this might be true.

We should all do what so many churches already do - openly admit that Adam and Eve did not exist, that evolution is a fact, and that Christians who declare otherwise make us all look foolish. Langdon stopped short, staring at the old priest. Oh, please! Beña said, laughing. I don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect - - intended us to forgo their use?

From my perspective, however, there has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure … my mind.

Sienna had endured no shortage of challenges in her life, and although she had trained herself to rely on intellect to overcome hardship, her current predicament had shaken her on a deeply emotional level.

There has never been an intellectual advancement that has not included God.

Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. It leads to knowledge. Realization is three-dimensional — a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. It comes only from direct experience.

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind. Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic with cognitive ones; top performers have both. The more complex the job, the more emotional intelligence matters—if only because a deficiency in these abilities can hinder the use of whatever technical expertise or intellect a person may have.

el descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.

la inteligencia emocional destaca especialmente sobre el CI en aquellos dominios "blandos" en los que la relevancia del intelecto para el éxito es relativamente menor, es decir, en aquellos dominios en los que habilidades tales como la autorregulación emocional y la empatía, por ejemplo, son más decisivas que las competencias estrictamente cognitivas.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise—and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.

The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night. I told myself I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost.

It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

I find no pleasure in discussing ideas any more on such an elementary level.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.