Intelligence
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
- Bovee, Christian Nestell
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Camus, Albert
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
- Chinese Proverb
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.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
- Goethe, Johann Von
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- Goethe, Johann Von
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- Johnson, Samuel
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Lichtenberg, Georg C.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
- Montaigne, Michel De
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
- Moore, George
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- Seneca
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
- Seneca
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Spenser, Edmund
