Quotes about Intellect
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
— Oscar Wilde
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
— Peter Kreeft
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
— Henry David Thoreau
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
— Jane Goodall
Man is a reasoning animal.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.
— John Adams
When we possess solely a head knowledge, two things can happen: (1) we are easily susceptible to hype or emotionalism, or (2) we are bound by our intellect.
— John Bevere
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
— Malcolm X
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
— Martin Luther
For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.
— Dani Alves
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
— Jacques Maritain