What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.