top of page

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Intellectual quotes

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
Explore more quotes by Sigmund Freud


"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."


"We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion."


"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."


"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."


"The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this way it is taught that its security in life depends on its parents (and, subsequently, other people) loving it and being able to believe in its love for them."


"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."


"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
bottom of page