Quotes about Intellect

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

In his opinion, a woman who loved books was the best sort.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned by the mind.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

He liked going to the library...