“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”— Rene Descartes, amazon.com
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly…”— Lawrence M. Krauss, goodreads.com
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“Nothing is more creative nor destructive than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“I’d fallen in love with her because I was the ultimate me with her. Loving her made me superhuman, it made me feel alive. At her easiest, she was hard, because her brain was always working, working, working.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what’s real and what’s not. They understand metaphor and symbol.”— Maurice Sendak, nytimes.com
“Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.”— Sam Harris, amazon.com
“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”— Jacob Bronowski, amazon.com
“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”— Jim Morrison, amazon.com