Intellect Quotes

Sayings that weigh intellect against instinct, privilege, and wit.

This intellect quotes collection opens with a playful joke weighing hair, teeth, and Intelligence against each other before landing, half-seriously, back on the hair.


Other lines take the theme more seriously, arguing that privilege can leave a person depraved in intellect and heart, or that all ideas ultimately trace back to the Depth of the senses.