520 Quotes About Intellect

Even the highest philosophy must come down to everyday level of the commoner, otherwise, such philosophy is of no use.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

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

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who, with the sword, fought to free from bodily slavery three millions of people, and who has shown the way to intellectual freedom to many millions more. I envy the land that brings forth such glorious fruit as Ingersoll.

Pure intellect without emotion is like a knife without a handle - does more damage than good.

Hold a flashlight on the street and it brightens your way, but hold it smack right into your eyes and you see nothing - the same is with intellect - too much intellect takes away your humanity.