Quotes About Intellect

She opened to her higher self. The light and power of her massive intellect coursed through her.

Games that fail to exercise the brain become boring.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Ray did not but could have said, *quote* Me, I read books [.....] How's about you? *closequote*

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

I'd really like to go on a date with Stephen Hawking. I just think we'd have really good chat. I'd just like to sit and listen to him.

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of books.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)

All of life is like this. You may attempt over and over again to accomplish a goal, but if you do so from an intellectual standpoint only, you'll rarely be successful.

Toda tu vida funciona así. Aunque intentes lograr un objetivo una y otra vez, si sólo lo haces desde un punto de vista intelectual, rara vez tendrás éxito. Sin embargo, si tu objetivo te apasiona, el éxito estará prácticamente asegurado.

You furnish your mind with readings in somewhat the same way you furnish a house with books.