Quotes About Intellect

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.

The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known . Nor is God known by the intellect. "God is Spirit" (Joh 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually. But fallen man is not spiritual; he is carnal. He is dead to all that is spiritual. Unless he is born again, supernaturally brought from death unto life, miraculously translated out of darkness into light, he cannot even see the things of God (Joh 3:3), still less apprehend them (1Co 2:14).

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity" (C. H. Spurgeon).

desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.     Ignoro

Desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.

Relative and ultimate, These the two truths are declared to be. The ultimate is not within the reach of intellect, For intellect is said to be the relative.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to be happy.

Só se questiona quem procura por si mesmo, quem quer sair da superfície do planeta mente para entrar em suas camadas mais profundas. Quem não se questiona não duvida das próprias verdades, não vasculha os fundamentos das emoções e dos pensamentos que tem, vai sempre ser superficial, ainda que seja academicamente um intelectual. E quanto mais me questionava, mais anotava e mais desenvolvia novos conhecimentos.

Intelectualii care nu-si incanta elevii nu-i influenteaza, nu formeaza oameni care gandesc, ci repetitori de idei.

La perseverancia es tan importante con la habilidad intelectual.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect

mano galvoje pakaitomis dirba dvejopos smegenys: gerai išsivys?iusios kvailio smegenys ir menkai išsivy?iusios genijaus smegenys.

I have faith, but I have faith in human reason

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

If, for example, you take the drug in a psychotherapeutic set and setting, you will focus on personal issues and may gain insights relevant to your emotional life. If you take the drug anticipating a spiritual experience and in a spiritually encouraging environment, you may have a transcendent mystical experience that causes you to re-evaluate your place in the universe. If, however, you focus on a specific intellectual problem, it is there that your insights will reside.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

I think, therefore I'll think.