Quotes About Intellect

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.