Quotes About Intellect

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

he who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Philosophy is the highest music.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.