Quotes about Intellect
He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.
— Isabel Allende
A man of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force — not even the highest intellectual force — that can compare with it. Men are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity.
— Napoleon Hill
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
— Tucker Max
We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.
— Toni Morrison
You don't have to seek anyone else's approval for the life God has given you to live. You don't have to apologize for the strength, fortitude, courage, talent, beauty, or intellect your Creator has given you. Ladies, we all are "God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10).
— Tony Evans
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge!
— Carl Jung
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
— Albert Camus
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
— Cicero
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.
— J. Gresham Machen
I try to get through a book every two weeks.
— Andre Iguodala