Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

It's obvious but perhaps worth saying that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven such as peace intelligence wisdom and happiness.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

On a level plain simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence the morality the justice and the interest of the people themselves.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.