Quotes About Intellect

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

Generally I try to avoid discussing consciousness, since it's, like, hard.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Chess is imagination.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Reading is not optional.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.