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

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don’t forget your up stairs, if you don’t go up there to put things in order,...

He wrote as a young man that God’s noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

I am worthless, with such a shallow intellect; You are always Merciful to the meek.

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and...

Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.

Some writers aren’t writers, they are mere escapees’ and refugees’ on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being “open” inside one’s mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is...

I was amazed at how routine, how mechanically this most powerful intellect was created. It was no burst of inspiration, but almost physical labor instead. I asked myself: was it the same way for God?

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the...

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural...

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver.

I couldn’t stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.

Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf.

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces…where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play,...

There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.

Deep-rooted beliefs are one of the many consequences of intellect, and also of ignorance; and telling one from the other is sometimes impossible.

It is not the intellect but the wisdom of love that will reveal the beauty of life.

When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase ‘Man’s Place in Nature,’ it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin’s theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been...

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or...

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.