Intellect Quotes

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing." "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. " "Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man." "All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts.' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." "Character is higher than intellect. " "Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be" "There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind." "Philosophy is the light of the soul and should be pursued by all rational beings" "He is a fool who sees not" "Humor can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind" "Common sense should always be in great quantity, compared with the rest of one's intellectual stores" "Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life." "“Leisure without books is death, and burial”" "A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person." "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind"