Quotes About Intellect

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

v tomto zmysle práve tak ako "umenie pre umenie" neuznáva prosto a jednoducho svet mravnosti a hodnoty ?udského života a to, že umelec je ?LOVEK, tak ani heslo "umenie pre ?udí" neuznáva prosto a jednoducho svet umenia samotného a hodnoty tvorivého intelektu a to, že umelec je UMELCOM.

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

La modestia conviene al sabio, pero no a las ideas que posee y que debe defender

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you're already bored by the knowledge.

The world of reason must be a lonely place," she said.

El profesor señala con el dedo a un alumno y le dice: «¡Refúteme a Buñuel!» Y es cuestión de dos minutos.

Those who find the world something worthy of praise or who congratulate themselves for having been born in it are either intellectually blind or morally perverse.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

È difficile cucire armoniosamente assieme la responsabilità di un gregge amato da difendere e la giusta misura nel riprendere le pecore smarrite lungo la strada, traviate dall'intelletto, da cattive letture e insane deduzioni.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

It is far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry... To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds... Trusting in Molech... or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.