Quotes About Intellect

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I just have never got into reading.

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I'm always reading books.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

I do not believe," said Wilson, "that any man can lead who does not act … under the impulse of a profound sympathy with those whom he leads—a sympathy which is insight—an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I've spent in the library, he always says. I have to agree- we'd probably never have to worry about money again.

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps.

The anti-human, the merely animal, consists in staying within the sphere of feeling, and being able to communicate only at that level. (1807, § 69).

Just as we often say of virtue that the greatest witness for its reality is the semblance that hypocrisy borrows from it, so Intellect cannot keep Reason off.

Few men think; yet all have opinions

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.