Quotes about Intellect

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.