People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.
Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.
Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.
Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver.
My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
