Intellectual Quotes

"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "The function of the scholar is to destroy myths" "A scholar is just a library's way of making another library." "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind" "The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing" "Curiosity is the lust of the mind" "Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions" "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes" "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." "He who thinks greatly must err greatly." "The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained." "To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you." "The direction of education is to turn the mind" "Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."