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

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

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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

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

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

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.