The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.