Intellectual quotes and words of wisdom

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
Albert Camus


"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb."
Aldous Huxley


"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Jose Ortega y Gasset


Interesting Quotes

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.Christian Furchtegott Gellert

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.Jerome K Jerome