Quotes about Intellect

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.