Surely, if nature had intended us to be governed by our…

If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to…

— Wilfrid Noyce

“I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent tree very…

— Samuel Butler

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

“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

“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

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

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

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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