Quotes about Intellect
You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.
— Billy Graham
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
— Oswald Chambers
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
— Ayn Rand
As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
— Mortimer Adler
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
— Cicero
There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
— Martin Luther
How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.
— Martin Luther
1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?
— Mortimer Adler
Shallow books make shallow men.)
— Randy Alcorn
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
— Charles Spurgeon
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas