520 Quotes About Intellect

People have a tendency to either fundamentalize things or philosophize things - those who fundamentalize things, boast about heritage, and those who philosophize things, boast about intellect. I say, neither heritage nor intellect is to be placed at the supreme altar of the human mind, instead what we must place in our mind's altar is people.

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

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

When your eyes show intellect, you will seem beautiful regardless of how you look.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

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

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.