Quotes About Intellect

It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle!

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product.

Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.

Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.

Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind.

The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

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

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Intelligence is derived from two words

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.