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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever, is dumb.

- Ogden Nash

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

- Albert Einstein

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

- La Rochefoucauld

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

- Theodore H. White

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

- Arthur R. M. Lower

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

- Spinoza

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

- Albert Camus

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Think sideways!

- Edward de Bono

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

- Arthur Bloch

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

- Pliny the Elder

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

- Noel Coward

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

- John Lukacs

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

- William Butler Yeats

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

- Leonardo da Vinci