Quotes about Intellect

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

While you have strong frames and robust constitutions, you have not the gift of intellect—you could not think for yourselves—you could not provide for yourselves—so the Lord in his infinite goodness has given you kind masters to think for you—[laughter].

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that renders abstraction necessary; it is his distance from God. Abstraction is not a condition of a push from below; it is a result of a fall from above. Abstraction is necessary because our intellect is imperfect. This is the fundamental reason.

The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature.

Do not postpone relationship with this law simply because you cannot fathom its mystery intellectually.