Quotes About Intellect

I was born with a reading list that never ends.

I was born with a book list i will never finish

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect.

We know not through our intellect but through our Experience

So it is fairly widely recognised that the relationship between human beings and things is no longer one of distance and mastery such as that which obtained between the sovereign mind and the piece of wax in Descartes' famous description. Rather, the relationship is less clear-cut: vertiginous proximity prevents us both from apprehending ourselves as a pure intellect separate from things and from defining things as pure objects lacking in all human attributes.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.

No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.

This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down and read or eat and read or shit and read. I'm a trained reader. I want a job where I get paid for reading books. And I don't have to make reports on what I read or to apply what I read.

El saber fue, por mucho tiempo, nuestra mayor y más compartida pasión.

Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.

You might even envy us—him for all the power vacuum-packed within his bulky, shopworn body, and me for my twenty-four-hour access to it, as though a famous and brilliant writer-husband is a convenience store for his wife, a place she can dip into anytime for a Big Gulp of astonishing intellect and wit and excitement.

Could she have known that it was her own image that, Waldo wrote, "rose before me at times into heroical & godlike regions, and I could remember no superior women"? Indeed, to Waldo, who had once unkindly disrupted her Conversations on classical myth, Margaret was best compared to "Ceres, Minerva, Proserpine, and the august ideal forms of the Foreworld." He had not told her this, but perhaps somehow she knew.

Waldo Emerson may have been a prize catch—"mine own angel-man," Lidian called him in an early letter to her sister. Yet becoming the wife of the free-lance philosopher also required "the giving up of an existence she thoroughly enjoyed," as one of the Emerson children later wrote, describing their mother's transformation from self-sufficient intellectual to genius domi.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!