Intelligence Quote by Dr Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a…

— Carl Sagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

— Carl Sagan

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

— Plato

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.

— Frank Oppenheimer

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

— Todd Solondz

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

— Takashi Miike

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort…

— Ugo Betti

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such…

— Paul Bloom

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

— John Dryden

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give…

— Fritjof Capra