Quotes About Intellect

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

Let reason alone decide

Do you see?" "Sort of," she said, and she frowned hard to make her head work better.

Emotion and intellect, matter and spirit, body and soul, One and Many, male and female, human and divine, freedom and necessity - all the contradictions of our fractured existence are most marvelously woven together in the wedding of soul and spirit, which preserves our twofoldness right into the heart of the One.

Copyright © 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.

Todos mis pupilos deben ser capaces de defender sus ideas. Hagas lo que hagas en la vida, tu ingenio te defenderá más a menudo que una espada. ¡Cultívalo!

Estoy harta de que solo me valoren por mi intelecto.-Se recostó en la silla y estiró los brazos por encima de la cabeza-. ¿Cuándo encontraré a un chico guapo que solo me quiera por mi cuerpo?

Name the nine prime fallacies," he snapped. "Simplification. Generalization. Circularity. Reduction. Analogy. False causality. Semantism. Irrelevancy….

I'm so tired of being appreciated for my intellect." She leaned back and stretched her arms over her head. "When will I be able to find a nice boy who just wants me for my body?

The desire for knowledge shapes a man,

Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man," he said.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

Bibliotheken befinden sich schließlich außerhalb der realen Welt. Es sind abgeschiedene Orte, Zufluchtsstätten des reinen Denkens. Auf diese Weise kann ich für den Rest meines Lebens auf dem Mond weiterleben.

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

I never read. It prevents me from thinking.

My brain is open.

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.