Quotes About Intellect

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Too often our intellect gets in the way of our hearts thereby blocking what instinctually can be drawn to us bringing happiness

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.