Quotes About Intellect

I read several books at once.

Christopher Hitchens

I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.

I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.

Our capacity for thought is one of humanity's most amazing qualities.

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.....

All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.

The Jefferson style – cultivate his elders, make himself pleasant to his contemporaries, and used his pen and his intellect to shape the debate – arm him well for the national arena.

because, no matter how he'd come to hate her, he was also, even now, trying to impress her and win her praise, bringing her his Bertrand Russell papers as mother-flattering evidence of his outsize intellect, constructing his rhyme schemes.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

Steve introduced me to the process of putting God's Word into practice, of acting on His promises and commands. I would read something in the Bible and consciously say, "This is God's will." Intellectually, I understood the meaning of it. Emotionally, I had to put this new truth to the test, to prove it by my own will. "Yes, this is God's will," adding, "for me.

Paradise will be a kind of library

Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.

There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

Every cultivated man is a theologian, and faith is not a requisite.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Andere mögen sich der Bücher rühmen, die sie geschrieben haben, mein Ruhm sind die Bücher, die ich gelesen habe.

As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. - Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Altri si vantino dei libri che hanno scritto, io mi glorio di quelli che ho letto.

The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary … More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books. —Prologue to The Garden of Forking Paths, 10 November 1941

Porque todo hombre culto es un teólogo, y para serlo no es indispensable la fe