Quotes about Intellect

when you're a pastor, your heart and soul and paycheck and doubts and faith and hopes and struggles and intellect and responsibility are all wrapped up together in a life/job that is very public.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.