Quotes About Intellect

There's a difference between remembering and thinking

Mr. Benedict, sir, have you read all the books in this house?" Mr. Benedict smiled, glancing fondly about at the many books in his study before looking at Reynie again. "My dear boy," he said, "what do you think?

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

Dr. Fanchon Quills.

it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Did your mathematical studies ever reach to the quadratic equation, Stephen?' 'They did not reach to the far end of the multiplication table.

And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

A man in search of spirituality knows little, because he reads of it and tries to fill his intellect with what he judges wise. Trade your books for madness and wonder—then you will be a bit closer to what you seek. Books bring us opinions and studies, analyses and comparisons, while the sacred flame of madness brings us to the truth.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Scholarship is polite argument.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.