Quotes About Intellect

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

Ronnie never stopped talking, even though he never had anything to say except what he had just read in the Reader's Digest, which he studied the way that Jefferson did Montesquieu.

Wilson was very much school of Montaigne. Like Montaigne, he was not exactly misogynistic but he felt that the challenge of another male mind was the highest sort of human exchange while possession of a beautiful woman was also of intense importance to him.

These books are a great deal harder to read than they were to write.

Feed your head means read a book.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

Oliver reached out to lift the skull with careful fingers. It was light, lighter than the repository of a man's intellect, personality, and memories ought to be, thought Oliver.

When you get stuck, remember that you can deal with physical issues intellectually and intellectual issues emotionally. You can work out emotional issues psychologically and psychological issues spiritually. Those are the spokes of the wheel—one breaks, you can use another to fix it.

the land of ideas, you are always renting.

We say that life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.

who could visualize four-dimensional surfaces in a non-Euclidean geometry

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That's what makes a topic nerdy: depth.