Intelligence Quote by H.L. Mencken

“Intellect is in itself an exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose,…

— Oscar Wilde

“an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“The intellect is a boat which can take us to the very shores of understanding, but once there we must leave it behind in…

— Ashavan

“Langdon wondered if maybe Edmond had discovered that human intellect, after aeons of progress, was now on the decline. There were certainly alarming indicators…

— Dan Brown

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light…

— Catherine of Siena

“Martin Luther claimed that he “never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”

— Leonard Susskind

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“* The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ALBERT EINSTEIN *I…

— John Pinkney