Intellect Quotes

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope & believe what he can.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.