(99 quotes found)
“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
“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
Samuel Johnson
“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.”
Galileo Galilei
“Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.”
Ovid
“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
“[The yarmulke] is an indication that one recognizes that there is something above you. It says, "Above my intellect is a sign of godliness."”
Pinchas Stolper
“I was always impressed with her intellect. She was educated. She was politically astute. That is a very important aspect of leadership: If you are not wise, if you are not familiar with how to deal with people different from yourself, then you can't be an effective leader. She could talk to anyone. She was an effective legislator. She knew how to get legislation passed for those less fortunate.”
Ulysses Hammond
“A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
Albert Einstein
“A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect”
Horace Porter
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