Quotes About Intellect

I was forcing him to think. He wasn't used to having to do anything that complex.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.

I could never, I knew then, lose myself in love. Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.

Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.