Edwin Land Quotes

I don't like the intellectual label.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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

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

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

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.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

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.

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

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

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

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

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers