Quotes About Intellect

Talking to Elizabeth is like talking to no one else. It is not a commonplace activity; rather it is a stimulating exercise for the mind.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

In Bacon we see the culminating prime Of British intellect and British crime.

ACADEMIA: Originalmente enramada en la que los filósofos buscaban un sentido en la naturaleza; ahora, escuela en la que los imbéciles buscan un significado en la filosofía.

For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.

It would be a librarian.

Do you always ask so many questions?" "My guidance counselor says it's the sign of an intellectually curious mind.

The home library of an A was more likely to have at least 500 books.

Never sure, Lisbeth," said Styx, backing away to consider her work. "Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

When scholars study a thing, they strive To kill it first, if its alive; Then they have the parts and they've lost the whole For the link that's missing was the living soul.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.