Quotes About Intellect

His intellect would have been more effective if he had had an aggressive paranoid character, eager for power. He was jealous but not exceptionally competitive, not a true paranoiac.

I read the best of literature, science and philosophy

Norman Geisler, R. C. Sproul, and Francis Schaeffer

His voice sounded vaguely grandfather like, as if his brain were crowded with knowledge!

In the Beginning was the Mind'.

Intelligent people are always the best encyclopaedia.

un cerebro que puede pensar bien, creará con el tiempo un pensador.

There's much I know: yet I'd know everything. (600)

Communism is a disease of the intellect. It promises universal brotherhood, peace and prosperity to lure humanitarians and idealists into participating in a conspiracy which gains power through deceit and deception and stays in power with brute force.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

He [Thomas Hobbes] had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

philosophers are premature ejaculators who decant too soon, spilling their seminal genius to no effect.

You don't bother to memorise the literature—you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.

Supposing you knew -- not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition -- that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real -- as real to the mind.

Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.

For the primary function of culture in Gissing's scheme of things was to segregate him from other people. To qualify as culture, knowledge had to be abstruse.

Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).