Quotes About Intellect

Chess is the art of analysis.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Nor is the difference slight in moral disposition between a barbarian, such as the man described by the old navigator Byron, who dashed his child on the rocks for dropping a basket of sea urchins, and a Howard or Clarkson; and in intellect, between a savage who uses hardly any abstract terms, and a Newton or Shakspeare. Differences of this kind between the highest men of the highest races and the lowest savages, are connected by the finest graduations.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

losing a debate isn't a sign of stupidity or weakness, but a sign of growth if you're willing to embrace it with humility. I

looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.

In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call "philosophy" - most of which is pure nonsense.