Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Intellect Quotes
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
The supreme end of education, we are told, is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.