The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior…

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

Great intellects are skeptical.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

— Ovid

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us…

— Erykah Badu

...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the…

— John Blacking

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

— Martin Rees

“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look…

— George B. McClellan

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an…

— Malcolm McDowell

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of…

— Samuel Johnson

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

— Ezra Taft Benson

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to…

— Peter Adamson