Quotes About Intellect

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

Thinking is good," Uman said. "We like thinking.

We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books or the Times Literary Supplement

received a classical education

Dogma is something you believe intellectually or on faith. Wisdom is something you know through Direct Experience!

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Since patriarchy is the perpetual poorhouse in which women are stored/restored, afflicted with poverty of spirit, imagination, intellect, passion, physical vigor, as well as economic poverty, it is clear - and clearer than ever - that we have basically Nothing to loose.

How I fevered to study the seven liberal arts: the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.

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.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

Fill-o . . . fill-o-wosso-fee . . .' 'Philosophy?

And amongst us one,Who most has suffered, takes dejectedlyHis seat upon the intellectual throne.

From the time of his passing, there was a movement to promote Paul's canonization. While criticized in some quarters for his response to the crises after the council and vilified by dissenting theologians for Humanæ Vitæ, Paul was nevertheless loved and respected by those who knew him for his intellect, his gentle courtesy, his humility, and above all, his personal holiness.

For Poe, no greater intellectual pleasure could be found than in matching wits with a capable adversary. Of course he greatly enjoyed perpetrating his own hoaxes—a diddle would be no diddle, after all, without a grin—but he also loved to expose the hoaxes of others, taking them apart to reveal their inner workings.

All jargon of the schools.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

To think freely about things is also to separate ourselves from the flesh we are crammed into. To escape from that limiting cage that is our flesh, to break free of our chains and take flight into pure reason. In reason lies the natural life. That's what is at the core of freedom of thought." (66)