Quotes About Intellect

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.