Ilka Chase Quotes

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

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

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.