Charlie Brooker Quotes

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Remember that we can only in our forebrains handle 5-7 items. Our backbrains can handle massive amounts. So when you're given a problem, think about it before you go sleep, and chances are you can solve it by the next morning.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.