Quotes About Intellect

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Thinking is itself, however, an adventure.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense of the world and have myths that explain things in everyday terms. Still, the secrets of the universe continue to transcend the quotidian.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

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

She wanted a true partnership fueled by intellect and creativity, respect and desire.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Roy might know who James Joyce is, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you're trying to act superior.