Quotes About Intellect

find more honest ways—both intellectually and emotionally—to talk about such magnificent intangibles as God, infinity, and consciousness.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -- that without intelligence we should be brutes -- but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

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

I have a very inquisitive mind, and I like to know. Like, if somebody uses a term and I don't understand, I always look it up.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.

The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a new approach to life and government. They valued intellect and education. In fact, they outlined the principles of the United States' democracy to establish intellectual freedom from the Church.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

En minä halua kulttuurikriittisiä ja -poliittisia kannanottoja. Minä kaipaan kylmää ryyppyä ja terävää ajattelua.

Take no heed of her, explained Jones apologetically. She reads a lot of books.

I don't really get the whole intellect-through-isolation thing, I said. I'm not sure anyone can claim to understand the human condition until he's talked two people out of a fight, smoothed over a best friend's marital breakup or dealt effectively with a teenager's huffy silence