Quotes about Intellect

In short, extensive Bible knowledge, a high-powered intellect, and razor-sharp reasoning skills do not automatically produce spiritual men and women who know Jesus Christ profoundly and who can impart a life-giving revelation of Him to others.

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare

Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.

Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.

I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a b abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.