Quotes About Intellect

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Voltaire had exercised the greatest intellectual influence on Catherine, and Diderot was the only one of the major philosophes she actually met, but it was in Friedrich Melchoir Grimm that the empress found a lifelong friend.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

To be successful in the field, a Monuments officer would need not just knowledge; he would need passion, smarts, flexibility, an understanding of military culture: the way of the gun, the chain of command. In Balfour, Stout saw that mix of keen intellect, practical instincts and respect for the uniform. And it gave him confidence. Just

I always thought Obama was "presidential." He treated the office of the presidency with respect. I rarely saw him in the Oval Office with a coat and tie, and he always conducted himself with dignity. He was a man of personal integrity, and in his personal behavior - at least to the extent I could observe it - he was an excellent role model...I thought Obama was first-rate in both intellect and temperament." Page 300

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with "intellectual pride.

A plethora of the continent's brightest lights had also taken flight. Not just Einstein, but Hans Bethe, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Otto Stern, Lise Meitner, Robert Frisch, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Maria Goeppert-Mayer—the list went on and on.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

I would like to be part of this unprecedented evolution of humanity, the era where humans work purely with their minds and not with their bodies.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." ? Karl Marx

No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

If Heloise had been more clear-headed she'd have seen that Abelard was a frightful nerd in human relationships.

If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose." Leo Tolstoy

one of the best gifts my parents gave me was a love of learning, especially through books

Sin embargo, el instinto es más sabio que el intelecto.

Most men would rather die than think

It was a charm born of struggle, an electricity emanating from hurt, an energy emitting through a formidable intellect and a prettiness formed by her robust resolve to step into a person of true power, wisdom and love.