Intellectual Play Quotes

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

It's fun to use your brain.

The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.