Intellectual Quotes

"The highest form of art is the expression of pure thought." "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress" "People forget about books. They're always just turning on the television, but reading a good book is the most nourishing thing you can do." "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book" "The pleasure of finding things out" "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." "I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."