Famous Intellect Quotes

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
-- George Sand

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.
-- E F Schumacker

For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,
-- Thomas Carlyle

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- William Falconer

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
-- Henri Louis Bergson

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
-- Henri Louis Bergson

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
-- Thomas Kempis

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
-- Rev Denny Brake

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
-- Michelangelo Buonarotti

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
-- William Wordsworth

The march of intellect.
-- Robert Southey

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F Scott Fitzgerald

They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are.
-- Chris Hamono

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
-- William Falconer

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
-- William Wordsworth