Quotes About Intellect

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si un individuo es pasivo intelectualmente, no conseguirá ser libre moralmente (Jean Piaget)

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.

This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

The mind, as well as the body, has its needs: those of the body are the basis of society, those of the mind its ornaments

J'ai commencé ma vie comme je la finirai sans doute : au milieu des livres.

This then is the age of reason.

If someone read every book that's ever been written all he could when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.

If someone read every book that had ever been written. all he could say when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.