My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence is the ability of seeing and reproducing in an objective manner everything that exists and happens.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Intelligence, the most plastic and at the same time the most durable structural equilibrium of behaviour, is essentially a system of living and acting operations.
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.