Quotes about Intellect
He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.
— Ayn Rand
I noticed that my mother paid for her intellectual freedom with chronic financial struggles and occasional personal chaos
— Barack Obama
He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
— Stephen Covey
If I were physically dependent—paralyzed or disabled or limited in some physical way—I would need you to help me. If I were emotionally dependent, my sense of worth and security would come from your opinion of me. If you didn't like me, it could be devastating. If I were intellectually dependent, I would count on you to do my thinking for me, to think through the issues and problems of my life.
— Stephen Covey
God has chosen to veil Himself in just the right measure so that our wills and intellects could be shaped by our allegiance to Him. He is there for anyone humble enough to recognize his or her personal need. He is also subtle enough to be ignored by those who are filled with themselves.
— Bill Johnson
While he never contradicts His Word, He is very comfortable contradicting our understanding of it. Those who feel safe because of their intellectual grasp of Scriptures enjoy a false sense of security. None of us has a full grasp of Scripture, but we all have the Holy Spirit. He is our common denominator who will always lead us into truth. But to follow Him, we must be willing to follow off the map—to go beyond what we know. To do so successfully we must recognize His presence above all.
— Bill Johnson
FAITH IS BORN of the Spirit in the hearts of mankind. Faith is neither intellectual nor anti-intellectual. It is superior to the intellect.
— Bill Johnson
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
— Mother Angelica
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
— Josh McDowell