Quotes About Intellect

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

It interests me when I hear people quoting great thinkers, because it's like, OK, but does that make you any brighter?

Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

I have this thirst for knowledge that I can't ever satisfy.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.