Quotes about Intellect
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
— Rob Bell
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
— Laurence Sterne
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
— John Keats
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
— Max Born
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
— Cicero
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.
— Donald Bloesch
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.
— Lewis Carroll
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
— Arthur Conan Doyle