Intellectual Quotes

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." "Here are some additional famous quotes by Yuval Noah Harari:" "Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds" "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." "A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." "The important thing is, when you reach that little intellectual plateau, just say "Aha!". It's about those little breakthroughs." "The highest form of art is the expression of pure thought." "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero" "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." "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active." "The pleasure of finding things out" "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book" "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." "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"