Intellect Quotes - Page 5

...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly."

"And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.