Quotes about Intellect

The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

One who asks the law to rule, therefore, is held to be asking god and intellect alone to rule, while one who asks man adds the beast. Desire is a thing of this sort; and spiritedness perverts rulers and the best men. Hence law is intellect without appetite.

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.