Intelligence Quotes
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Camus, Albert
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Chinese Proverb
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. -- Chinese Proverb
de Montaigne, Michel
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Goethe, Johann Von
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johnson, Samuel
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lichtenberg, G.C.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Moore, George
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
Seneca
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Seneca
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. -- Seneca
Spenser, Edmund
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -- Edmund Spenser
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe