Intellectual Quotes

"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." "Writing does not mean to passively add to the noise of the world but to actively engage in the transformation of knowledge" "The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he does not understand the amount of effort it takes to produce it." "Nothing seems more evident to me than that the powers of the mind are the varied actions of the brain"