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 hes able or willing,

but the degree to which he thinks
will determine the degree to which hell 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 peoples minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.
-William Lyon Phelps

Are you more fearful of what you dont 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 youre 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

Mans rise or fall, success or failure,

happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude.
A mans attitude will create the situations he imagines.
-James Lane Allen