“The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of dialectical thought.”
Friedrich Engels
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
Albert Einstein
“Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.”
Felix Adler
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as pigs squeak”
Samuel Butler
