Quotes about Intellect

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

One thing the Bible does not do: it does not denigrate the mind. The Bible is not anti-intellectual. Rather it gives the reason why all of us know what we know, why we can think with some degree of accuracy, and why we fail to think with complete accuracy.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.

as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

In general, we taught that love and action were more important than intellect or speculative truth. Love is the highest category for the Franciscan School (the goal), and we believe that authentic love is not possible without true inner freedom of conscience,18 nor will love be real or tested unless we somehow live close to the disadvantaged (its method), who remind us about what is important.