God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.
I prefer people to disagree with me because I really don't think I'm smart enough to know what all the answers are and I think the back and forth. . . we have a lot of it in our office, strong personalities, big intellects, good ideas - I think that back and forth has produced better strategies and tactics for us than if I sat in my office and decided we're doing those 10 things and that's the end of it.
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.
I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
Great intellects are skeptical.
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism. . . the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
. . . we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects. . . and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction. . . the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
