Quotes about Intellect

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

If you want to feel good, be rational.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.

as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books