The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
People only have so much attention.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.
Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
