Quotes About Intellect

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.

The proper study of mankind is books.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I studied psychology, history, and religion. I was a heady girl, but frankly, I'm glad I studied those subjects because a lot of that has really helped me as an actress.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your manners, your demeanor, your social skills. 'Substance' describes the inner core of your character - your intellect, your empathy, your creativity.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

The Communist state knew, better than the Czech-Californian philosopher, where the greatest danger to it lay; in the realm of the intellect and the spirit. That the state was less and less successful at doing so is another matter, which merely confirms how right it was to be afraid; for, despite all the bribes and prizes and titles thrown their way, the artists were among the first to rebel.

At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in . . . expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) . . .

For what you have really done in your handling of the evidence for belief in God, is to set yourself up as God. You have made the reach of your intellect, the standard of what is possible or not possible. You have thereby virtually determined that you intend never to meet a fact that points to God. Facts, to be facts at all–facts, that is, with decent scientific and philosophic standing–must have your stamp instead of that of God upon them as their virtual creator.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.