520 Quotes About Intellect

A lot is said about the serious by the fact that the most intelligent person around is almost always the most playful.

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

The passion of one man will always outrun the intellect of a thousand others.

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

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

He was so near the sacred and fearful grail of black manhood that any man of color who faced the threat of life with courage, and intellect, and wit, was his hero.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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.