Quotes About Intellect

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

I spend a lot of time reading.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

No one is truly interesting until he is in graduate school," pronounced Wilson.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Although the thought has occurred to me regularly over the past two decades that, at least in the United States, it is simply impossible to be, with integrity, both evangelical and intellectual, this epistle is not a letter of resignation from the evangelical movement.

Emotion had no place in the virtual world, where logical, ruthless intellect prevailed.

Years ago, for instance, I realized that most of the CEOs and managers I meet are not just smart but also wise—but they don't often get a chance to share their wisdom. They're focused so intently on the mundane day-to-day problems of running a business that they rarely have the opportunity to think deeply and creatively and use their highest and usually considerable intellectual abilities.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.