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Quotes about Intellect

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
— Ayn Rand
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
— Ayn Rand
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.
— Ayn Rand
A thinking child cannot conform. Thought does not bow to authority.
— Ayn Rand
Scientists tend to risk theories they admire
— Stephen Hawking
According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")
— Stephen Hawking
There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.
— Graham Greene