Baseball is a game of strategy and intellect, as much as it is about physical prowess.

The moral is perhaps that intellect and being well-read have no innate value to a contented or useful life. The number of hardbacks on your bedside table is in inverse proportion to the number of arched backs in your bed.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Nature is the great ocean of intelligence in which we are bathed.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies — to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage — to make it the tool of our survival.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision. It’s not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You’re collusive with the religion when you accept it. You have a choice.