“I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something.”— Marvin Hamlisch
“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”— Richard Hofstadter
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”— Walter Kerr
“Of all the creatures that creep and crawl and wriggle and buzz, the deadliest is the worm of dogma, which wriggles its way into the human brain, and gobbles it up.”— Robert F. Goheen
“The intellectual is a man who lives for ideas; the professional is a man who lives from ideas.”— Richard Hofstadter
“No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”— John Selden