Quotes about Intellect

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.