Quotes About Intellect

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.

Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.

The great ideas arise when you give freedom," declared the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver—"freedom to think, freedom from other pressures—to individuals of great intellectual capacity . . . and let them be motivated primarily by their curiosity to find out how nature operates.

The best problem-finders demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embrace systemic thinking, and exhibit a healthy dose of paranoia.

everything human is human because it is brought about through thinking, and for that reason alone."5

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

Truly divine faculties of intellect and imagination can make gods of us all

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Así se prueba a un hombre. Si es honesto, intelectualmente hablando, reexamina sus opiniones y comienza de nuevo.

Bir duygu, hakk?nda aç?k bir fikir olu?turdu?umuz anda ihtiras olmaktan ç?kar." - Spinoza

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.

He is intrigued by complex minds.

Instead, knowledge gets its essential unity from the goal that uniquely orients the pursuit of knowledge. And this goal, Kant argues, can be nothing other than knowledge of the system of ideas. This system consists of an infinitely intelligible reality – the thing in itself or the absolute world – which is constituted by God – the ens realissimum or the absolute ground of all reality – who is at the same time the infinite intellect or the absolute soul.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

Intellect and Intelligence are close stablemates, however one is a hacker the other a thoroughbred

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

intellect is only one facet of the mind, and that beyond it is a universal intelligence which is freely available to each of us. If we're willing to put down the book entitled My Mind, we can wander around the whole library and even access the thoughts of God.

I ONCE DISMISSED FAITH BECAUSE I VIEWED IT FROM AN INTELLECTUAL STANDPOINT, BUT FAITH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLECT.

The battle lines are well drawn: the microbes' genetic simplicity and evolutionary swiftness against our intellect, creativity, and collective social and political will. We cannot overwhelm the pathogens, because they so vastly outnumber and outmaneuver us. Our survival depends on outsmarting them.

I think; therefore, I am above average.