Quotes about Intellect
I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during working hours,' he went on, 'but we are infants where feeling and desire are concerned.
— Aldous Huxley
If a man write little, he had need have a great memory."[12]
— Donald Whitney
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
— Dorothy Sayers
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.
— Albert Einstein
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
— Oscar Wilde
The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.
— Anonymous
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
— Bill Gates
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
— George Eliot
In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.
— Alice Hoffman
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas