Quotes About Intellect

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence—nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them.

There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days.

But the Library still held everything he'd ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips

A dynamic female zoology professor expanded her intellectual horizons by urging her to take the daring step of majoring in biology rather than English. In doing so, Carson discovered that science not only engaged her mind but gave her "something to write about.

I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.

Read the newspaper, Aaron's father liked to say, you'll grow to be an educated man.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Amazement and astonishment express the momentary overwhelming of the mind by something beyond expectation. Amazement is an emotional response, astonishment an intellectual one.

emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, chronologically, and now even geographically

who knew that humanity would one day reach childhood's end, who believed intellect could triumph over superstition and ignorance, and who dared to dream.

Intellect, courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy—each of those qualities was as important to the human species as all the others

My intellect is God-given. I've a sacred obligation to use it.

Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.

Thales did something different. He asked questions to which he didn't know the answers.

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

We've got to dumb America up again.