Quotes About Intellect

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

High office teaches decision-making, not substance…. A period in high office consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it.

while hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that builds wisdom.

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

The mind," he said, intruding on and descanting upon her thoughts, "is the least commonly acknowledged erogenous zone.

that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people;

The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the soul of man. And the human intellect, with no inkling of the immense variety and complexity of circumstances conditioning a phenomenon, any one of which may be separately conceived of as the cause of it, snatches at the first and most easily understood approximation, and says here is the cause.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I know that most men—not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever, and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic problems—can very seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as to oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty—conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.

Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.

The higher the human intellect rises in the discovery of these purposes, the more obvious it becomes, that the ultimate purpose is beyond our comprehension. All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life. And so it is with the purpose of historic characters and nations.

Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of life beforehand, just as positively as the peasant Fyodor, and not a bit more clearly than he, and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to come back to what everyone knows?

he made it a rule to read through all the books he bought.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.

As is often the case with those gifted with an ardent imagination, though he had long known that Moscow would be abandoned, he knew it only with his intellect, he did not believe it in his heart and did not adapt himself mentally to this new position of affairs.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

Muchas de sus paradojas lógicas son hoy valoradas en gran manera por la Lógica más avanzada

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.