Quotes About Intellect

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

'L.A. Law' has been a bit of a blessing and a curse. First of all, it was a very prestigious show that had a lot of intellect, and I was the pretty boy. I've had to battle that my whole career: 'Oh, you were the face guy. You didn't really have to act; you just had to wear the right suits.' I had to battle that.

Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you'll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching 'Masterpiece Classic.'

Everything must be carried to term before it is born. To let every impression and the germ of every feeling come to completion inside, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, in what is unattainable to one's own intellect, and to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I would not be hurried … to underrate the Book. … As the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes, so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge… I only would say, that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.