Intellectual Strength Quotes

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

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

Historically and culturally the Mongol women were very strong, they contributed as much as the men to their society, their community. Other than upper body strength, I think they were equal to the men. To compensate for the lesser upper body strength they had to be smarter, they had to think more, they had to consider things more carefully.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.