Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Intelligence is not a science.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

People are not stupid.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Human beings understand too much.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

I love the human mind.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.