Quotes About Intellect

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Revelation in nature and revelation in Scripture form, in alliance with each other, a harmonious unity which satisfies the requirements of the intellect and the needs of the heart alike.

Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

It was sad enough to see her father drift away, but it was crushing to find her respect for his intellectual worth vanish with him.

Ph??ng trình h? chí – Higashino Keigo _"Tò mò có ngh?a là b? kích thích b?i s? hi?u k? mang tính trí tu?. B? m?c s? tò mò là m?t t?i ác. B?i ngu?n n?ng l??ng l?n nh?t giúp con ng??i tr??ng thành chính là s? hi?u k? - Yukawa" - Ph??ng trình h? chí

Give me a book," she said. "A book of sermons, anything." "What do you want a book for?" "I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose.

The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light of history. It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best, it is a secondhand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched.

We're incandescent and it doesn't seem fair." "Fair?" "I mean too much comes to some of us, not enought to all the rest of us. So few of us to do the thinking. I mean so few of us have to be so incandescent.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Lontano dal centro dove brillano le grandi intelligenze, dove l'aria è carica di pensieri, dove tutto si rinnova, l'istruzione invecchia, il gusto si snatura come acqua stagnante. Per mancanza di esercizio, le passioni si rattrappiscono ingigantendo cose di nessuna importanza. Ecco perché l'avarizia e il pettegolezzo appestano la vita di provincia.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?

We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

Libra does. Winning an intellectual point or decision, however minor, major—or in the middle—is the reason for the Libra person's very existence, symbolized by the Libra Scales, balanced in perfect harmony and justice.

I am picky about the books I read. I don't waste time on head trash. I think Benjamin Disraeli said it best, "When I want to read a good book I write one.

Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.