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." "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind" "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "The important thing is, when you reach that little intellectual plateau, just say "Aha!". It's about those little breakthroughs." "A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds" "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex"