Quotes about Intellect

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own

Moreover, she is intellectually short-sighted, for although her intuitive understanding quickly perceives what is near to her, on the other hand her circle of vision is limited and does not embrace anything that is remote; hence everything that is absent or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.