Quotes About Intellect

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your understanding of words, train your memory and live solitary in your head with only books for company. So it was meant to be hard, but I found it wonderfully easy, for just these reasons. I fell in love with Latin.

I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and — when played well, nourishes the wallet.

Faith is not merely a matter of the intellect, nor of the intellect and the emotions combined; it is also a matter of the will which determines the direction of life.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

He felt like a mobile library. Where other investigators gathered fingerprints and evidence, he gathered books.

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Thoughts have no sex.

Man is a reasoning animal.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

There is no power on earth so great as the power of intellect. It moves the world and it moves the earth.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with them. The data that Galileo, Newton, Ricardo, Menger, and Freud made use of for their great discoveries lay at the disposal of every one of their contemporaries and of untold previous generations. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa.

La inferioridad de muchos autodenominados intelectuales se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no reconocen qué capacidad y poder de razonamiento se requieren para desarrollar y operar con éxito una empresa comercial.