520 Quotes About Intellect

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

A clever person cannot be evil. A kind person is always clever. Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love.

All the intellect and knowledge in the world turn dim in front of one simple act of love and kindness.

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.

Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.

You'll learn more about life from the stand-up of a responsible comedian than from the literature of an egotistical intellectual.

Розум — одне з найбільших людських обдарувань. Але дуже часто пошуки знання перешкоджають пошукам любові. Це ще одна істина, яку я відкрив для себе зовсім недавно. Я пропоную її вам як гіпотезу: розум без здатності віддавати й отримувати любов приводить до ментального й морального зриву, до неврозу й, можливо, навіть до психозу. А ще я скажу, що розум, який зосередився на собі як на центрі, що виключає людські взаємини, може привести тільки до насильства й болю [246].