Quotes About Intellect

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than the mental/ intellectual faculties of thought, perception, reason, memory.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Each experience through which we pass, if taken sportingly develops wisdom & makes us to adopt the correct approach towards life with skill, intellect & passion. Never disheartened on being mistaken. Mistakes is learning experience which teaches us to work hard & use this time more wisely.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are.

A philosopher who was not sufficiently modern for her, Leibniz, has said that the journey from the intellect to the heart is a long one.

notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres. Même l'acte si simple que nous appelons « voir une personne que nous connaissons » est en partie un acte intellectuel

The intellect does not recognise situations in life which have no issue.

Let the intellect get to work; in the course of it there will be more than enough sorrows to enable him to finish it.

That hateful staircase, up which I always passed with such dismay, gave out a smell of varnish which had to some extent absorbed, made definite and fixed the special quality of sorrow that I felt each evening, and made it perhaps even more cruel to my sensibility because, when it assumed this olfactory guise, my intellect was powerless to resist it.

Those who have minds have no regard for birth.

putting adroitly provocative questions to casual witnesses, bribing servants, listening at doors, seemed to him now to be precisely on a level with the deciphering of manuscripts, the weighing of evidence, the interpretation of old monuments—so many different methods of scientific investigation with a genuine intellectual value and legitimately employable in the search for truth.

But ideas transform themselves in us, they overcome our initial resistance to them, and feed upon rich reserves of intellect that existed ready-made for them without our knowing.

we do not know what a thing is until we have approached it with our intelligence.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

A home without books is a body without soul.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.