Quotes about Intellect

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned by the mind.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

He liked going to the library...

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

With my intellect I see cause for nothing but pessimism and even despair. But I can't settle for what my intellect tells me. That's not all of it...There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises... That's enough to keep my heart optimistic no matter how pessimistic my mind.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.