Quotes About Intellect

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

Burr held to the heretical belief, shared only by John Adams in the circle of Founding Fathers, that women were fully the equals of men, just as capable in intellect, just as sensible, and just as deep in feeling.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not.

Por el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo.

Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

He was proud of her wild, exploring mind.

Pela grossura da camada de pó que cobre a lombada dos livros de uma biblioteca pública pode medir-se a cultura de um povo.

Por el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo. - John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968)

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

My dear, We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them. Don't let them explore you until they've explored the secret universes of books. Don't let them connect with you until they've walked between the lines on the pages. Books are cool, if you have to withhold yourself from someone for a bit in order for them to realize this then do so. Truly yours, John Samuel Waters

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Tenemos que hacer que los libros vuelvan a molar. Si vas a casa de alguien y no tiene libros, no te lo folles.

If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding

Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.

Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

As my father [Jav?harl?l Nehr?] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

My father was all brain and little heart.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.