There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.