Quotes About Intellect

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

Shakespeare asks, "Tell me where is fancy bred…in the heart or in the head?

He's over your head!" He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms.

But when we work with numbers and abstract reasoning, the benefit to our society is infinite.

Minds hold more than they know," the tall man said.

One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don't believe it's true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be repeated again and again.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking.

interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

If I forget thee, O Vulcan, let my eyes lose their fire, my blood lose its flame, and my intellect its keenness.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.