Quotes About Intellect

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

I am a geek. I am always in books.

Deep down inside, I'm a science geek.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

while you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Never since the sun had stood in the firmament and the planets revolved around him had it been perceived that man's existence centres in his head, i.e., in Thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

I obviously do everything to be hard to understand myself

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

Great intellects are skeptical.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the intellect.

Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire.

Coming to power is a costly business: power makes stupid.… The Germans – once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans mistrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things

the Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

with its aid one can play the tyrant; one compromises by conquering. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to demonstrate he is not an idiot: he enrages, he at the same time makes helpless. The dialectician devitalizes his opponent's intellect.