Famous quotes containing the words intellect, personality and/or character:
“The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)