intellectual vitality Quotes

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

The actuality of thought is life.

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.

The Catholic Church has progressively estranged the intellectual class … and has deprived itself as well as Ireland of that vitality both so desperately need by almost forcing the talented intellectual to seek his fortunes in some other country.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.