Quotes About Intellect

Men should strive to think much and know little.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.

A ContraPoints video is never going to be framed as 'I'm so offended by this idea.' It's not, 'I'm so intimidated by my opponent's big, masculine brain.' It's more, 'I'm bored of you, and also, you're a dum-dum.'

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

I am your original autodidact.

I've always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Being a man repeller becomes a process of elimination. If a guy is only really into your outfit and won't date you because of what you're wearing, they are too driven by the female exterior and don't care about your intellect.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly was - genius is an overused word - but he clearly did have something of the genius about him.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

We only had one thing going for us: organic brains.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

You don't logic, man. You sheer don't logic.

Gelehrsamkeit

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.