Quotes about Intellect
Reading is more important to me than eating.
— John Piper
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.
— Ellen White
A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose, the simplicity of an earnest, dependent faith.
— Ellen White
If intellectual greatness, apart from any higher consideration, is worthy of honor, then our homage is due to Satan, whose intellectual power no man has ever equaled. But when perverted to self-serving, the greater the gift, the greater curse it becomes. It is moral worth that God values. Love and purity are the attributes He prizes most.
— Ellen White
Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.
— Emil Brunner
The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.
— Scott Hahn
I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
— Marina Abramovic
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
— Mark Twain
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
— Mark Twain
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
— Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
— Mark Twain