“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.”
Sean Green
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.”
Emma Goldman
“Beware the person of one book”
Latin Proverb
