Quotes About Intellect

Whoever has not known the pleasures of open stacks—with their erotically charged corridors.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.

I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters;

Gotham admired Maeve. By day she managed money, and did it brilliantly, but she didn't find it satisfied her intellect. She spoke four languages. She played the piano seriously well. And she read books. Lots of them.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Ego = 1/ Knowledge: More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect.. Never to the defect of demanding of the World That it be anything that's not the World.

I wanted to live among books.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read.