If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
He generally speaks about facts, issues, and if he's got a fault in speaking, it's probably that he knows so much about what he's talking about, sometimes he talks over people's heads.
Referring to U.S. Senator, Lloyd Bentsen:
Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.
Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.
I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
