Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Intellect
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.