Intellect Quotes

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, ‘Not bad. They’re okay.’ And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Man in Black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.