Quotes About Intellect

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

A home without books is a body without soul.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

I cannot live without books.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.