If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.

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.

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

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

Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.

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.

Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

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