“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Character is higher than intellect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Intelligence precedes force. Force itself is nothing without intelligence. In the heroic age the leader was the strongest man; with civilization he has become the most intelligent of the brave.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.”
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