Quotes about Intellect

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Hope is a soldier. It fights against tribulations, the Cross, despondency, despair, and waits for better things to come in the midst of evil. Without hope faith cannot endure. On the other hand, hope without faith is blind rashness and arrogance because it lacks knowledge. Before anything else a Christian must have the insight of faith, so that the intellect may know its directions in the day of trouble and the heart may hope for better things. By faith we begin, by hope we continue.

As I have always both offered and desired peace so that I might devote myself to quieter and more useful studies, and have stormed with such great fury merely for the purpose of overwhelming my unequal opponents by the volume and violence of words no less than of intellect, I not only gladly ceased but also joyfully and thankfully considered this suggestion a very welcome kindness to me, provided our hope could be realized.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.