Quotes About Intellect

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

I take all knowledge to be my province.

All men by nature desire to know.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.