Intellectual Quotes

Tyndall, … I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.

If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

I don’t understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.