Quotes About Intellect

I doubt whether Cromwell or Milton could have rivaled [William Lloyd] Garrison in this field of quotation; and the power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

kairosclerosis n. the moment you realize that you're currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it's little more than an aftertaste.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Beasts abstract not.

There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money.

Las emociones son nuestros sentimientos. Los filósofos griegos enseñaron que la voluntad y las emociones deben estar sujetas al intelecto, y los teólogos reformados también han defendido la "primacía del intelecto".26 Pero la Biblia no

Como dije en el capítulo 7, el intelecto, la voluntad y las emociones son una sola cosa en la naturaleza humana. Ahora podemos ver que estas también son una en nuestra naturaleza pecaminosa.

En la mente humana hay intelecto, memoria y voluntad, pero las tres son una. Y,

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the sleeves of some defunct economist

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

One can … get trapped in one's own intellectual web.

They make a king out of the servant and separate themselves from their true being. They force their higher self into exile, into the unconscious. The intellect causes this separation, and by means of concentration exercises and a purposeful effort to become conscious and aware, the intellect can be an instrument by which we get out of this separation and back to our true self.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

Only more cat-shaped. (Jeoffry, a poet's cat, has ignored vast amounts of Milton over the years, but some of it has apparently stuck.)

I see what Gabe sees in her, the fracturing brilliance of intellect concealed beneath that quiet exterior. There's someone in there, someone as deep as Lake Ontario and sharp as a switchblade, unconventional and oddly ruthless.

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.