Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

My brain is open.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.