"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires." ― James Russell Lowell Topic(s): Intelligence More From James Russell Lowell "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls." "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." "Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." More In Intelligence "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."― Samuel Johnson "To think is to practice brain chemistry."― Deepak Chopra "But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It’s about character, it’s about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don’t see."― Ron Silver