Quotes About Intellect

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.

Before I met the Jesuits, I'd never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

There is nothing higher than reason.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.

A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... (but) it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses... (art must be like, ed.) fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mothers womb.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

Deep inside him, so deep even he would not have known how to excavate it, was the rank, gangrenous fear that he was not entirely the intellectual being he had long ventriloquized.

A scholar knows no boredom.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

The academic community is an attractive working environment,

Those whose job it is to teach too often seem to see nothing in the act of faith but an act of the intellect; but as a matter of fact the will also has a large part in it. They forget that belief is a supernatural gift, and that there is a deep gulf between merely seeing the motives of credibility and making a definite act of faith.