The man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.
An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theaters, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Leonardo da Vinci
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
