Quotes About Intellect

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

There's no real rush to answer the questions you face. To apply the best intellectual answer, you should clear your mind, stay calm, assess the question as well as you can to be comfortable, and then respond.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I prefer intellect and charm.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.