Quotes About Intellect

the ability to reason on your own, your most prized possession as a human.

But as Cicero had long tried to convince him, a speech is a performance, not a philosophical discourse: it must appeal to the emotions more than to the intellect

El conocimiento es el nuevo dinero.

Intelligence is the ability to take information and make it meaningful.

To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.

the struggle of the noble, free-thinking

Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was.

Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it's been intellectually defined

The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

We don't have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul.

we are rational animals, but we are imperfectly rational. We are prone to making intellectual and moral mistakes and capable of behaving grossly unreasonably—especially when deflected by powerful emotions that run contrary to the demands of reasonableness.

Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

As Henry Ford said, Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.

One of the quotes credited to Ford goes: Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

Invest in your greatest asset—your mind—before investing in stocks or real estate.

Ford goes: "Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

But when you have huge thoughts you need to use large words to specific them, haven't you?

I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.

This place is a playground for a questing mind.

Alas, he understood too well Sigmund's concept of interesting.