Quotes About Intellect

We're looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn't exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, 'cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It's now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Cognitive flexibility is an important executive function that reflects our ability to shift thinking and to produce a steady flow of creative thoughts and answers as opposed to a regurgitation of the usual responses. The trait correlates with high-performance levels in intellectually demanding jobs. So if you have an important afternoon brainstorming session scheduled, going for a short, intense run during lunchtime is a smart idea.