Quotes About Intellect

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

Nice passion is reading

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.

Paul Dirac was notoriously a man of few words. Dick Feynman told the story that when he first met Dirac at a conference, Dirac said after a long silence, "I have an equation; do you have one too?

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

Holmes was expressing his deepest values, ones impressed on him from an early age. He had been raised to believe he and his peers were part of a hereditary aristocracy. He had learned from his father that they were part of a special caste whose refined physiognomy set them apart, and whose elevated intellect was "congenital and hereditary.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.

Though you have a fine mind and a subtle intellect, the sentiments you express not only expose your ignorance, they also wound my heart.

better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza.

the tale of a community that provides security in exchange for thought