“I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It’s really funny.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.”— Sam Harris, amazon.com
“There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.”— Malala Yousafzai, dailymail.co.uk
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill…”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the universe. One is love, the other is intelligence. I also believe that a person’s capacity to love is directly related to their intelligence level, just as hate corresponds to a person’s level of ignorance. The only thing that makes it impossible…”— Damien Echols, amazon.com
“Really, it’s not people who don’t understand us who drive us nuts—it’s when those who shouldn’t, do.”— Pauline Kael, amazon.com
“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com