Quotes About Intellect

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

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

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

It really turns me on when you talk geek.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal....

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Hope is a soldier. It fights against tribulations, the Cross, despondency, despair, and waits for better things to come in the midst of evil. Without hope faith cannot endure. On the other hand, hope without faith is blind rashness and arrogance because it lacks knowledge. Before anything else a Christian must have the insight of faith, so that the intellect may know its directions in the day of trouble and the heart may hope for better things. By faith we begin, by hope we continue.

As I have always both offered and desired peace so that I might devote myself to quieter and more useful studies, and have stormed with such great fury merely for the purpose of overwhelming my unequal opponents by the volume and violence of words no less than of intellect, I not only gladly ceased but also joyfully and thankfully considered this suggestion a very welcome kindness to me, provided our hope could be realized.