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In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

The march of intellect.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.