#intellect

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intellect #sherlock-holmes #brain

If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese? ↗

— Stephen King

#commencement #intellect #steven-king #college

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#faculty #intellect #necessary #other #reality

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#i #intellect #need #rest #time

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imagination #intellect #loyalty #shallow #faith

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#conservatism #economics #intellectuals #keynesianism #law

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). ↗

— Carter Lindberg

#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. ↗

— Neil Postman

#recreation #age