INTELLECTUAL QUOTES

“Anyone who stops learning is old,

whether at twenty or eighty.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
–Henry Ford

“What is the hardest task in the world?

To think.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

–Marcus Aurelius

“Those people who develop the ability

to continuously acquire new and better forms of
knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives
will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”
–Brian Tracy

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The mind is everything.
What we think, we become.”
-Buddha

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 “You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
-James Lane Allen

“As a man thinketh, so is he,

and as a man chooseth, so is he.”
-Bible

“Every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing,

but the degree to which he thinks
will determine the degree to which he’ll rise.”
-Ayn Rand

“What you think means more than anything else in your life.”
-George Matthew Adams

“Change your thought and you change your world.”

-Norman Vincent Peale

“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith,

and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action,
richer in achievement and experience.”
-Eddie Rickenbacker

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize

that as a thinker it is his first duty
to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation,
thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them
because they do not suffer themselves to think.”
-John Stuart Mill
On Liberty, 1859
 “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
-Marcus Aurelius

“They are able because they think they are able.”

-Virgil

“The human brain is a most unusual instrument

of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.”

–Stuart Seaton

“It isn't what you have, or who you are,

or where you are, or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.”
-Dale Carnegie

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Change the way you look at things

And the things you look at will change.”
-Wayne Dyer

“I believe that daydreams –

you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing –
are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.”
-L. Frank Baum

“At a certain age some people’s minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.”
-William Lyon Phelps

“Are you more fearful of what you don’t know or what you do know?”
“We need people who are pathological learners,
 people who have no fear.”
-Christopher Lochhead

“Each time you open your mouth, you let men look into your mind.”
-Bruce Barton

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.”

-J. Martin Kohe

“I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”
-Wernher von Braun

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-W.W. Ziege

“The words ‘I am’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch to them.
The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.”
-A.L. Kitselman

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

-Oscar Wilde

“All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.”

-Otto Weininger

“I am still learning.”
-Michelangelo

“Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible,
they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill.

If you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.”
-Shakti Gawain

“Man’s rise or fall, success or failure,

happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude.
A man’s attitude will create the situations he imagines.”
-James Lane Allen