The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make…

“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at…

— Harriet Hosmer

“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that…

— Raheel Farooq

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

— Kerry James Marshall

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and…

— Raymond Cattell

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire…

— Orhan Pamuk

“There are many different kinds of knowledge. The way of the heart and spirit can guide us in a more trustworthy way than the…

— Lakota Sioux Buck Ghosthorse

“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into…

— James K.A. Smith

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most…

— Matthew Simpson

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle