Quotes About Intellect

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

But that's bullshit!" Doug says. "Jesus! Haven't you guys spent any time at all around people like Comstock? Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?

Gedankenexperiment

Sarah's entrance, several minutes before the start of the lecture, had thrown Casimir into a titanic intellectual struggle. He now had to decide whether or not to say "hi" to her.

He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.

True science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

A woman, young, full of life and laughter, a human with a psychic connection to him. A human filled with compassion, intellect, and strength. Death and damnation could wait another day while he satisfied his curiosity.

Where was her sharp intellect? She relied on her brain. She could think fast and was good at details. When Vittorio was around, the only details she could remember were how his smile was so beautiful and how his voice was so gentle and yet compelling.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young and active and starting out in the argument. Just think of the extraordinary things that are waiting to be known

Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers.

Christopher Hitchens

the razor of Ockham is clean and decisive.