Quotes About Intellect

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. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall.

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

I discovered books and read forever

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.

A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.

When we possess solely a head knowledge, two things can happen: (1) we are easily susceptible to hype or emotionalism, or (2) we are bound by our intellect.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

delight in good ideas.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

Frames of Mind

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I need something deeper. I need someone to challenge me intellectually

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.