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“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love

“The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809â€�82

“A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

“Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.”
― Jacques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

“God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism

“some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in that twilight world between consciousness and unconsciousness, in a state of somnolent repose but also savoring the vital goodness of remaining this close to the vegetative in myself”
― Irving Singer, The Harmony of Nature and Spirit

“I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.”
― Leora Tanenbaum, Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation

“Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“My intellect was my greatest vanity.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.”
― Ian Driscoll

“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.”
― Bryant McGill

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”
― Phillip Athans, R.A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen, Volume II: Extinction, Annihilation, Resurrection

“The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.”
― Herman Melville, Correspondence

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.”
― Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

“It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.”
― J.D. Greear, Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

“It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.”
― Damon Horowitz

“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...

If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.”
― Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism

“Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

“Happiness, as a rule, is inversely proportional to intellect.”
― Sunil Raina

“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.”
― L.H. Sigourney, Letters to Young Ladies

“The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.”
― Raheel Farooq