Quotes About Intellect

Russell is a Platonic dialogue in himself.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

God, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

We want men to admire us for our courage, our characters, and our intellect, not just our beauty.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Now Kant is by no means easy to understand, which is no doubt part of his charm. If you want to be a really great philosopher, make sure not to say too clearly what you have in mind (well, maybe that's not quite enough, but it's a good start);

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

In fond, oamenii nu citesc; daca citesc, nu pricep; daca pricep, uita.

Ciò dimostra che al giorno d'oggi la mancanza di pedanteria viene scambiata per furto deliberato.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.