Quotes About Intellect

Great thinking comes from a great mind

Many of us, either from too little emotion or too much intellect, both of which are stumbling blocks in the way of prayer, cannot believe that which our senses deny. To force ourselves to believe will end in greater doubt.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

anti-intellectual

Try reading a book while doing a crossword puzzle; that's the intellectual environment of the Internet. BACK

A hundred years ago, we arrived at such as moment with technologies that extend man's physical powers. We are at another such moment today with technologies that extend our intellectual power

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

Das widerlichste und groteskeste der Schauspiele ist das der Überlegenheit des lebenden Professors über das tote Genie.

Mensch ohne Vorurteile bedeutet gewöhnlich Mensch ohne Geistigkeit. Vorurteile, Aberglauben, Skrupel sind Keime des Geistes, der in einfachen Seelen sprießt. Mit ihnen aufzuräumen, um von den Seelen die Last zu nhmen, die "den freien Ausdruck des Geistes erstickt", begünstigt lediglich die Erosion dieser armen Boden.

Die These der Einheit der Wissenschaft ist kein epistemologische Erfordernis. Nicht einmal ein intellektuelles Programm. Sondern angstvolle Verkrampfung angesichts des Geheimnisses.

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor's simplistic ideas.

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

Istruire non è indicare soluzioni, ma rivelare problemi.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.

Vulgarity consists, basically, in being on first name terms with Plato or Goethe.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.