“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Charles Sumner
“Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
Mark Twain
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill”
“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”
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