Character Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

— Anonymous

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

— Ilka Chase

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Intelligence isn't measured in the way you speak or how high your degrees are, it's in the art that your hand and mind projects.”

— RON Nicolas

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

— Michael Servetus

I find no intellect comparable to my own

— Margaret Fuller

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as…

— Alfred Binet

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognize its limits

— Anonymous