Quotes About Intellect

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Malnutrition of the reading faculty is a serious thing.   Let us prescribe for you.

As far as I can see, a man who's fond of books never need starve!

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to theological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories...

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

There needed to be places like this - places to read and write and study and argue and debate with all different kinds of people and not to have to look over your shoulder all the time. Places where the desire for knowledge overwhelmed boundaries and differences.

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

El desencanto es un oxímoron, una contradicción que el intelecto no puede resolver y que sólo la poesía puede expresar y custodiar

Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration during the Renaissance.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Cryptology is a game of decoding. But it doesn't require high intellect to unravel what the less educated have encoded.

The state of mind is by far the most superior of all.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

Thinking is common to all.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.