Intellectual Challenge Quotes

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I read 'On The Road' in college. I was 18 or 19, and I had a particular quarter where I was taking biology, calculus, and physics. Those were my three classes. It wasn't a well-rounded schedule at all. It was hard, hard work, all the time - hours and hours and hours of homework.

Irregular war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Chess will always be the master of us all.

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

I'm always really confident when I play 'Jeopardy.'

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.