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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.