Quotes About Intellect

Collège de France,

Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Logic,' indeed!

The human act of blind faith, whether in a god or man, is both noble and tragic. Tragic, because it demands the sacrifice of the very essence of our intellect - the ability to question.

Dare to think for yourself.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song, The salmon?falls, the mackerel?crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-K?ya state of Perfect Enlightenment.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It's now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!