Quotes About Intellect

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I now see clearly that our intellect cannot be satisfied until that truth enlighten it beyond whose boundary no further truth extends. In that truth, like a wild beast in its den, it rests once it has made its way there—and it can do that, or else its every wish would be in vain. —Paradiso IV:124–129

the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.

the first scientists and the first mathematicians.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a polymath and one of the first directors of the library

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.

a room without boooks like a body without soul

He who owns Books and loves them is wise.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

A young man came for psychotherapy because, though he was intellectually very competent and seemed superficially to be very successful, his spontaneity was almost completely blocked.

C'est horrible de vivre une époque ou au mot sentiment, on vous répond sentimentalisme. Il faudra bien pourtant qu'un jour vienne où l'affectivité sera reconnue comme le plus grand des sentiments et rejettera l'intellect dominateur. »

C'est horrible de vivre une époque ou au mot sentiment, on vous répond sentimentalisme. Il faudra bien pourtant qu'un jour vienne où l'affectivité sera reconnue comme le plus grand des sentiments et rejettera l'intellect dominateur.

Give an intellectual any ideal and any evil passion and he will always succeed in harmonizing the twain.

But when man confronts the restlessness of his intellect and is caught in the whirl of modern life, he loses all relation to the Rosary.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

I learned that preaching only with your mind and intellect was not sufficient.

I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.

Parlo, parlo, dico sciocchezze, faccio lo svagato; ma non è vero, sai? Perché osservo tutto io, invece; osservo tutto!