Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.

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

Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

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

A man of intelligence sees a complicated and blurred intent as a naked body, unclad by his brilliance.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

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

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

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

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

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

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

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.