Quotes About Intellect

But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

Daniel felt a controlled importance, a fine passionate honing of his attention and intellect that made him impatient with his whole previous life.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

It is less important—and ultimately perhaps rather futile—to reach ethical or intellectual conclusions about the unconscious than it is to create a space of inquiry where we diligently attend to how it continues to reincarnate the past in the present.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent mind in its work of development. How marvelous it would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment of the child, if by understanding the needs of his physical life and by feeding his intellect, we could prolong the period of functioning of the absorbent mind!

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred-billion light-years across.

Reigning over the worlds in your brain – that's a true prerogative of rational existence…

But I know, at least, that you would keep a library on the subject, and I hoped that I might be allowed to read from it." He regarded me with a bemused expression. "You want me for my library.

It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.

When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such attitude is driven by his anima, otherwise he would discuss in a quiet, detached way.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The belly is the giver of genius.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.