Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Intellect Quotes
IntellectKnowledgeLearningThinking Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
AnalysisCreativityIdeasIntellectMind It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
AmusementArtIntellectWit There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.
FollyGamblingIntellectMaterialism Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Class StructureEqualityIntellectPerceptionSociety On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
IntellectKnowledgeMindfulnessReflectionSelf-awareness An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
BalanceCharacterIntellectWisdom We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
ExistenceIntellectMysteryPerception The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
CertaintyHuman NatureIntellectVice The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
IntellectObstinacyWill Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
CuriosityIntellectPassionUnique Interests An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
CharacterIgnoranceIntellectUpbringing Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
IdentityIndividualityIntellectSelf-Perception The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
ArtistryCommunicationIntellectSimplicity An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
IntellectMindsetSelf-awareness One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
IntellectTruthUnderstandingWisdom We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
ActivityGeniusIntellectThought Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
CreativityIntellectKnowledgeThoughtsValue More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
BoldnessCourageGuidanceIntellectReason If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
IndividualityIntellectOriginalityPerception The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Cultural PrideHistoryIdentityIntellectPrejudice When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
IntellectPassionSuccess Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
