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...

Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don’t even know it.

He’s one fry short of a Happy Meal.

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

…and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps...

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the...

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

For good health, watch what you eat. For a good head, watch what you watch.

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in the world, and the mind is where all this is stored. A simple...

Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a...

I read a page of Plato’s great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter,...

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the...

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I’ve determined there is a God based on His intellect.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

An intellectual is some one who isn’t exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the...

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don’t forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is...

No, there’s going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I’ll be able to die happy, for I...

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose...

Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defect of...

We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and...

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and ‘be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…’ – Hannah More

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a ‘top student.’ All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am “sincere” or “insincere”? What does this have to do with whether or not my thoughts are right? I can utter a soaring...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self–to the mediating intellect–as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible...

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds