I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.
Oliver GoldsmithOur intellects are not impartial observers of the world but active participants in it.
john n. grayThere is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects. If a young or middle-aged man, when leaving a company, does not remember where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going."
samuel johnsonThe power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!
albert pikeI find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
Oliver GoldsmithOn a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Meeting and visiting brothers, even if little, causes the development and maturity of intellects.