Quotes About Intellect

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered a wide range of worldviews.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

Q is a terrific part.

Philosophers are despots who have no armies to command, so they subject the world to their tyranny by locking it up in a system of thought

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

What's personality anyway? A mask of emotions, superimposed on the body and the intellect.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.