Quotes about Intellect

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.

Only those who know the supremacy of intellectual life - the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it - can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing, soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

The eager theorizing of ages is compressed, as in a seed, in the want of a single mind.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness