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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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.