Quotes About Intellect

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Some people would rather die than think.

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

I read research like other people read sports magazines or fashion magazines.

For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.

heat that rots ambition and stuns the intellect and will.

My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don't really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care.

Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care. I don't believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway?

The role of intellectual development is primary in evangelical Christianity, but you might not know that from a cursory look at the church today.

Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith.

We sing, "In my heart, Lord, be glorified," but when was the last time you heard someone sing, "In my intellectual life, Lord, be glorified"?

Sunday school classes, discipleship materials, and sermons too often address the heart and not the head, or focus on personal growth and piety and not on cultivating an intellectual love for God in my vocation.

Serious people have few ideas," said Paul Valéry. "People with ideas are never serious.