(112 quotes found)
“It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Charles Lamb
“Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding”
Friedrich August Hayek
“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Charles Sumner
“I appreciate intellect and intellectual capacity as much as anybody. But I also know if you have a combination of a lively intellect and levels of experience, you're going to be better suited to make decisions, whether you're head of scouting, player development or a general manager.”
John Schuerholz
“The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”
Ovid
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein
“There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.”
Shirin Ebadi
