The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Read Summary
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Read Summary
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. Read Summary
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility. Read Summary
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Read Summary
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference. Read Summary
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Read Summary
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. Read Summary
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. Read Summary
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Read Summary
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Read Summary
No man was ever wise by chance. Read Summary
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. Read Summary
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Read Summary
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. Read Summary
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Read Summary
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. Read Summary
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. Read Summary
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Read Summary
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. Read Summary