Quotes About Intellect

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Donald Trump has got unlimited number of insecurities. But the No. 1 one thing, I would say, is his insecurity with his intellect. There's a reason why he always refers to where he went to college and, you know, that, 'I'm a smart person.' You know, it may be narcissism. But I think it really reflects an insecurity.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

Information work is thinking work.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.