Quotes About Intellect

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.