Intellect Quotes

“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”

“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”

“Language is generated by the intellect and generates intellect.”

“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”

“A con artist's only weapon is his brain.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“Intelligence is a moral category.”

“What better thing can a man do than to cultivate the garden of his mind?”

“By words the mind is winged.”

“The opium of the intellectuals is the belief that the worst is the most probable.”

“To be a scholar of stupidity is not to be a stupid scholar.”

“Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra where all the instruments should bear a part.”

“To be logical is to be stupid.”

“Publishers are all cohorts of intellectual counterfeiters.”

“A publisher is a man who bets on brains.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“Of all the creatures that creep and crawl and wriggle and buzz, the deadliest is the worm of dogma, which wriggles its way into the human brain, and gobbles it up.”

“My real pleasure is a good new book. I get a big kick out of it. It's a sensual pleasure, a pleasure of the mind.”

“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”