In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a...

If you do not like your results in a particular area it is rarely your intellect that deserves the blame, but rather where you have directed your intellect. Results are purchased by how you spend...

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Is he mad? Anyway there’s something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

The point of Christian scholarship is not recognition by standards established in the wider culture. The point is to praise God with the mind. Such efforts will lead to the kind of intellectual integrity that...

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

What,” “how,” “when,” etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask “why” is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.

I will analyze the actionsand appetites of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes,and of solids.

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

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason;...

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

…When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.””And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man’s intellect to kick in.

12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.

The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart – the dimension of joy, trust,...

{Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll, 1894}I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men would take you more for a guide than they do, or seem to do. You...

The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. There was logic even in his laughter. He...

It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect...

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...

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we...

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please–you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Many grow old with ages, but some attains age with wisdom.

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But...

The principle of vis inertiae (…) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a...

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn’t giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you’re growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people...

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

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...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the...

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which...

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil,...

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in...

Arousal begins within the mind, then seeps out where fantasy propels physicality.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today.The new man will have to find new forms of communication, working together and sharing, because the old man and the...

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

That was the way with Casaubon’s hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the ‘Key to all Mythologies’, but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had...