Quotes About Intellect

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

Keeping the secret was going to be more difficult than Rupert could have foreseen. Every time she met a hieroglyph, she'd act like this: vibrating like a tuning fork, the gigantic brain bubbling over and spilling out its secrets: Greek and Latin and Coptic and names of scholars and who believed what and this alphabet versus that one and phonetic interpretations versus symbolic ones.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

I love watching him think, Maeve told Lily. You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

Bob was a spirit being, a spirit of intellect from one of the more surreal corners of the Nevernever. He wasn't evil as much as he was magnificently innocent of any kind of morality

I prefer the skyline of a shelf of books.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing worlds, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called Science.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I could live without television, but not without books.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

to love God means to devote our intellect to the worship and service of God, to acquire knowledge about him and his commands, and to obey all biblical precepts.

Man depends on God for his continual existence and intellectual operations; he is not autonomous or independent in any sphere of life.

I know that I will win every time because my approach to apologetics depends wholly on biblical revelation. This confidence is not based on any unique intellectual endowment that I think I possess, but it is based on the superiority of God's wisdom as revealed in Scripture, which is available to, and in principle affirmed by, every Christian.

God has sovereignly regenerated and enlightened us, and by imparting to us the very mind of Christ, he has made us intellectually superior to all non-Christians. Therefore, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.

Many Christians have succumbed to the anti-intellectual spirit of the world,

Christ enlightens every man ever born by having created him with an intellectual and moral endowment…This knowledge is a part of the image of God in which God created Adam.