Quotes About Intellect

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Though one's occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.