Intelligence Quote by Sophie Cornish

“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.”

— Pat Allen

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

— Henri Bergson

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

— Margaret Oliphant

“imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.”

— Sarah Arthur

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has…

— Karen Armstrong

“For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and…

— Lew Wallace

“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

— Colin Wilson

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“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