Quotes About Intellect

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.

As the honey bees land on flowers and fruits, to sip nectar from that for producing honey; it shows its nature. Similarly, sober and qualified figures, follow visionary subjects and objects, to beautify and purify its vision; it mirrors intellect.

Follow me if you have the mind for literature; otherwise, you would find nothing other than that.

Human life is itself a philosophy, loaded with knowledge and science in its brain.

Thinking is painful business.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

He didn't want her the way he generally wanted women, to feel them under him, to turn them over, turn them again, open them up, break them, step on them, and crush them. He didn't want her in order to have sex and then forget her. He wanted the subtlety of her mind with all its ideas. He wanted her imagination. And he wanted her without ruining her, to make her last.

they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn't possess.

Halakha, as the human way of life in accordance with the Torah, does not aim at absolute truth, nor does it run after the fata- morgana of universal truth. Neither of them is accessible to human beings. Its aim is "earthly truth" that the human intellect is able to grasp and for whose pursuance in life man must accept personal responsibility.

That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information.

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

Another characteristic of Homo hibernicus—I know you would be annoyed if I did not mention it—is quickness of intellect. Now I must admit that on this point you Irish may be better judges of yourselves than an outsider like me would be. Because the Irish have all sorts of ways of seeming to be knowledgeable when they are not. One, of course, is lying.

El odio a la actitud científica caracteriza a ignorantes y resentidos.

Un tenace, fiero sentimento d'indipendenza intellettuale resisteva in lei all'amore. Ella poteva tranquillamente giudicar suo marito, riconoscerne le imperfezioni e sentiva ch'egli non poteva altrettanto, lo sentiva umile nel suo amore, devoto senza fine.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

A person who is truly learned does not have to snap own photo with the bookshelf in the background to project oneself as well-educated via media picture.

A person whose mind is actually dismantled does not realise that MENTAL also means INTELLECTUAL.