Quotes About Intellect

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.

It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

I like poems that are complex.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

Logic is pointless.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.