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{
"quote": "To ask and learn what you don't know is a super-power",
"author": "Ankur Warikoo"
},
{
"quote": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. ",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.",
"author": "Kevin Kruse"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.",
"author": "Napoleon Hill"
},
{
"quote": "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.",
"author": "Robert Frost"
},
{
"quote": "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.",
"author": "Florence Nightingale"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing impossible to they who will try.",
"author": "Alexander The Great"
},
{
"quote": "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.",
"author": "Wayne Gretzky"
},
{
"quote": "I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.",
"author": "Michael Jordan"
},
{
"quote": "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.",
"author": "Babe Ruth"
},
{
"quote": "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.",
"author": "W. Clement Stone"
},
{
"quote": "We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.",
"author": "Kevin Kruse"
},
{
"quote": "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "We become what we think about.",
"author": "Earl Nightingale"
},
{
"quote": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.",
"author": "Charles Swindoll"
},
{
"quote": "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.",
"author": "Alice Walker"
},
{
"quote": "The mind is everything. What you think you become.",
"author": "Buddha"
},
{
"quote": "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.",
"author": "Chinese Proverb"
},
{
"quote": "An unexamined life is not worth living.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "Eighty percent of success is showing up.",
"author": "Woody Allen"
},
{
"quote": "Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going because a straight line, even in an ECG. means we are not alive.",
"author": "Ratan Tata"
},
{
"quote": "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"
},
{
"quote": "Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.",
"author": "Stephen Covey"
},
{
"quote": "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.",
"author": "Swami Vivekanand"
},
{
"quote": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.",
"author": "Christopher Columbus"
},
{
"quote": "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "Either you run the day, or the day runs you.",
"author": "Jim Rohn"
},
{
"quote": "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Take up one idea, make that one idea your life, think of it, dream of it, let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success",
"author": "Swami Vivekanand"
},
{
"quote": "The best revenge is massive success.",
"author": "Frank Sinatra"
},
{
"quote": "People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.",
"author": "Zig Ziglar"
},
{
"quote": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.",
"author": "Anais Nin"
},
{
"quote": "If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.",
"author": "Vincent Van Gogh"
},
{
"quote": "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.",
"author": "Jesus"
},
{
"quote": "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.",
"author": "Erma Bombeck"
},
{
"quote": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.",
"author": "Booker T. Washington"
},
{
"quote": "Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.",
"author": " Ancient Indian Proverb"
},
{
"quote": "Believe you can and you’re halfway there.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Have faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.",
"author": "Swami Vivekanand"
},
{
"quote": "Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.",
"author": "George Addair"
},
{
"quote": "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.",
"author": "Maimonides"
},
{
"quote": "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.",
"author": "Arthur Ashe"
},
{
"quote": "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "Fall seven times and stand up eight.",
"author": "Japanese Proverb"
},
{
"quote": "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.",
"author": "Anne Frank"
},
{
"quote": "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.",
"author": "Dalai Lama"
},
{
"quote": "If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.",
"author": "Sheryl Sandberg"
},
{
"quote": "First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.",
"author": "Latin Proverb"
},
{
"quote": "You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.",
"author": "Unknown"
},
{
"quote": "We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.",
"author": "Marie Curie"
},
{
"quote": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.",
"author": "Les Brown"
},
{
"quote": "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.",
"author": "Joshua J. Marine"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.",
"author": "Booker T. Washington"
},
{
"quote": "I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.",
"author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
{
"quote": "Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.",
"author": "Jamie Paolinetti"
},
{
"quote": "You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.",
"author": "Erica Jong"
},
{
"quote": "What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.",
"author": "Bob Dylan"
},
{
"quote": "I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.",
"author": "Bill Cosby"
},
{
"quote": "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.",
"author": " Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.",
"author": "Chinese Proverb"
},
{
"quote": "There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.",
"author": "Roger Staubach"
},
{
"quote": "It is never too late to be what you might have been.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "You become what you believe.",
"author": "Oprah Winfrey"
},
{
"quote": "I would rather die of passion than of boredom.",
"author": "Vincent van Gogh"
},
{
"quote": "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.",
"author": "Unknown"
},
{
"quote": "It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.",
"author": "Ann Landers"
},
{
"quote": "If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.",
"author": "Abigail Van Buren"
},
{
"quote": "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.",
"author": "Farrah Gray"
},
{
"quote": "The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.",
"author": "Jesse Owens"
},
{
"quote": "Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.",
"author": "Sir Claus Moser"
},
{
"quote": "I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.",
"author": "Rosa Parks"
},
{
"quote": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.",
"author": "Oprah Winfrey"
},
{
"quote": "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.",
"author": "Dalai Lama"
},
{
"quote": "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "Dream big and dare to fail.",
"author": "Norman Vaughan"
},
{
"quote": "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.",
"author": "Martin Luther King Jr."
},
{
"quote": "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.",
"author": "Teddy Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.",
"author": "Tony Robbins"
},
{
"quote": "Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.",
"author": "Gloria Steinem"
},
{
"quote": "It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.",
"author": "Mae Jemison"
},
{
"quote": "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.",
"author": "Beverly Sills"
},
{
"quote": "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.",
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.",
"author": "Grandma Moses"
},
{
"quote": "The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Change your thoughts and you change your world.",
"author": "Norman Vincent Peale"
},
{
"quote": "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”",
"author": "–Audrey Hepburn"
},
{
"quote": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"
},
{
"quote": "If you can dream it, you can achieve it.",
"author": "Zig Ziglar"
},
{
"quote": "I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.",
"author": "Zane Grey"
},
{
"quote": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.",
"author": "David Cameron"
},
{
"quote": "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.",
"author": "Michael Gove"
},
{
"quote": "I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.",
"author": "Andrew Shue"
},
{
"quote": "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.",
"author": "Arlen Specter"
},
{
"quote": "The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.",
"author": "Cheryl James"
},
{
"quote": "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.",
"author": "Herman Cain"
},
{
"quote": "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.",
"author": "Angie Stone"
},
{
"quote": "'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.",
"author": "George Lucas"
},
{
"quote": "Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.",
"author": "Alexander McQueen"
},
{
"quote": "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.",
"author": "Harvey Weinstein"
},
{
"quote": "I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.",
"author": "Mindy Kaling"
},
{
"quote": "I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.",
"author": "Lynda Barry"
},
{
"quote": "I view art as an inspirational tool.",
"author": "Thomas Kincade"
},
{
"quote": "To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.",
"author": "Snoop Dogg"
},
{
"quote": "Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.",
"author": "Peter Diamandis"
},
{
"quote": "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.",
"author": "Rosie O'Donnell"
},
{
"quote": "I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.",
"author": "Brittany Murphy"
},
{
"quote": "Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.",
"author": "Steve Sabol"
},
{
"quote": "Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.",
"author": "Mindy Kaling"
},
{
"quote": "Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.",
"author": "Russell Baker"
},
{
"quote": "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.",
"author": "Smokey Robinson"
},
{
"quote": "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?",
"author": "Stephen Colbert"
},
{
"quote": "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.",
"author": "Anna Deavere Smith"
},
{
"quote": "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.",
"author": "Smokey Robinson"
},
{
"quote": "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.",
"author": "Adriana Trigiani"
},
{
"quote": "I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.",
"author": "Max Weinberg"
},
{
"quote": "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.",
"author": "R. Kelly"
},
{
"quote": "When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.",
"author": "Robin Gibb"
},
{
"quote": "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.",
"author": "Carter Burwell"
},
{
"quote": "Books are challenging and inspirational to me.",
"author": "Amy Sedaris"
},
{
"quote": "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.",
"author": "Queen Elizabeth II"
},
{
"quote": "I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.",
"author": "Candice Swanepoel"
},
{
"quote": "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.",
"author": "Michael D. Higgins"
},
{
"quote": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.",
"author": "Harry Seidler"
},
{
"quote": "In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.",
"author": "Smokey Robinson"
},
{
"quote": "I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.",
"author": "Carol Ann Duffy"
},
{
"quote": "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.",
"author": "Nigel Lythgoe"
},
{
"quote": "I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.",
"author": "Reggie Watts"
},
{
"quote": "I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.",
"author": "James Iha"
},
{
"quote": "Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.",
"author": "Rodney Atkins"
},
{
"quote": "Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.",
"author": "Jack Youngblood"
},
{
"quote": "This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.",
"author": "Roma Downey"
},
{
"quote": "My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.",
"author": "Taylor Dayne"
},
{
"quote": "I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.",
"author": "Lee Ritenour"
},
{
"quote": "A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.",
"author": "Steve Berry"
},
{
"quote": "I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.",
"author": "Ashthon Jones"
},
{
"quote": "There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.",
"author": "Boris Vallejo"
},
{
"quote": "Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.",
"author": "Cheryl Crawford"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.",
"author": "Ray Bradbury"
},
{
"quote": "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "Common sense is not so common.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.",
"author": "Alan Alda"
},
{
"quote": "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.",
"author": "Salvador Dali"
},
{
"quote": "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.",
"author": "Catherine Deneuve"
},
{
"quote": "A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.",
"author": "Roy H. Williams"
},
{
"quote": "To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "Information is not knowledge.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.",
"author": "Arthur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "Action is the real measure of intelligence.",
"author": "Napoleon Hill"
},
{
"quote": "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?",
"author": "Scott Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.",
"author": "Stephen Hawking"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.",
"author": "Dolly Parton"
},
{
"quote": "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.",
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
},
{
"quote": "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Wit is educated insolence.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.",
"author": "Victor Hugo"
},
{
"quote": "There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "Genius always finds itself a century too early.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.",
"author": "Gilbert K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.",
"author": "Julius Charles Hare"
},
{
"quote": "It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.",
"author": "Don Herold"
},
{
"quote": "Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.",
"author": "Paul Cezanne"
},
{
"quote": "It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.",
"author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.",
"author": "Bill Watterson"
},
{
"quote": "I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.",
"author": "Steve Jobs"
},
{
"quote": "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.",
"author": "Plutarch"
},
{
"quote": "Knowledge is love and light and vision.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.",
"author": "Roger Ebert"
},
{
"quote": "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.",
"author": "A. A. Milne"
},
{
"quote": "An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.",
"author": "Bryant H. McGill"
},
{
"quote": "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.",
"author": "Gracie Allen"
},
{
"quote": "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.",
"author": "Janis Joplin"
},
{
"quote": "Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.",
"author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
},
{
"quote": "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.",
"author": "Helen Gurley Brown"
},
{
"quote": "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.",
"author": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "Genius is initiative on fire.",
"author": "Holbrook Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.",
"author": "Carl Jung"
},
{
"quote": "Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.",
"author": "Carl Jung"
},
{
"quote": "Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.",
"author": "Jean-Paul Sartre"
},
{
"quote": "There is no method but to be very intelligent.",
"author": "T. S. Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.",
"author": "Augustus Hare"
},
{
"quote": "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.",
"author": "E. B. White"
},
{
"quote": "Every true genius is bound to be naive.",
"author": "Friedrich Schiller"
},
{
"quote": "There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.",
"author": "John Fowles"
},
{
"quote": "Belief is the death of intelligence.",
"author": "Robert Anton Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.",
"author": "Timothy Leary"
},
{
"quote": "To think is to practice brain chemistry.",
"author": "Deepak Chopra"
},
{
"quote": "The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.",
"author": "Ed Parker"
},
{
"quote": "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.",
"author": "Josh Billings"
},
{
"quote": "Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.",
"author": "Georg C. Lichtenberg"
},
{
"quote": "An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.",
"author": "Spiro T. Agnew"
},
{
"quote": "God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.",
"author": "Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "Always be smarter than the people who hire you.",
"author": "Lena Horne"
},
{
"quote": "Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.",
"author": "Marcel Proust"
},
{
"quote": "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.",
"author": "Michel de Montaigne"
},
{
"quote": "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.",
"author": "Lewis Carroll"
},
{
"quote": "You have to be smart. The easy days are over.",
"author": "Robert Kiyosaki"
},
{
"quote": "We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.",
"author": "Woodrow Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.",
"author": "Ernest Newman"
},
{
"quote": "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.",
"author": "Henri Frederic Amiel"
},
{
"quote": "Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.",
"author": "Diogenes"
},
{
"quote": "Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.",
"author": "Susan Sontag"