Quotes About Intellect

I hope we will not get too serious here, for seriousness is the Red Death if we let it move too freely amongst us. Its freedom is our prison and our defeat and death. A good idea should worry us like a dog. We should not, in turn, worry it into the grave, smother it with intellect, pontificate it into snoozing, kill it with the death of a thousand analytical slices.

Se refería a la posibilidad de quemar libros sin cerillas ni fuego. Porque no hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.

No hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.

Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

Yo soy un escritor apasionado, no intelectual, lo que quiere decir que mis personajes tienen que adelantarse a mí para vivir la historia. Si mi intelecto los alcanza demasiado pronto, toda la aventura puede quedar empantanada en la duda y en innumerables juegos mentales.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

True, we might form classes in thinking and reading.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.' Pope.

Una buona reputazione professionale non è sempre garanzia di un intelletto equilibrato.

that glance of insufferable, hopelessly dense sufficiency which nothing but the frequentation of science can give to the dullness of common mortals.

Music laps at the shores of the intellect; only those with no firm ground under their feet can live for music. — Karl Kraus

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry

Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.

Alexander Pope said that amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Socrates never raises the question whether there is such a thing as wisdom or expertise.

The Lord seeks those who are willing to lay down their reliance, not only on their intellectual ability, but also on the "gift" realm as well, for a complete dependence on the operation of the Holy Spirit through them - speaking the right word, at the right time, to the right person (the spirit of prophecy). This will be a penetrating, anointed word that will accomplish the purpose for which it is spoken, and will become a "witness" of the Lord.

Man, moreover, possesses the capacity for thought. This uniquely human capacity is the greatest means of experiencing the highest form of pleasure. Thinking provides a limitless treasure house of pleasure for man. The act of thinking, which is seldom outwardly manifested, gives man the keenest sense of pleasure, which is just not realizable by any other means.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing

No puede tenerse una vida plena en mente sin libros y tiempo para estudiarlos, sin oportunidad para viajar y observar o sin compañerismo intelectual.

you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

intellectual hare

In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel...but a comedy for those who think