Marya Mannes Quotes

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

In my mind it's so much fun to have something that has clues and is mysterious - something that is understood intuitively rather than just being spoon-fed to you. That's the beauty of cinema, and it's hardly ever even tried. These days, most films are pretty easily understood, and so people's minds stop working.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.