Intelligence Quote by Antonio Gramsci Download Open image ““Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”” — Antonio Gramsci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intelligence Optimism Pessimism
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.” — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Pessimism n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.” — Evelin Lindner Copy Share Image
“While an optimistic attitude broadens your horizons to bring positivity and hope, pessimism limits possibilities and fills you with doubt and negativity.” — Lindy Tsang Copy Share Image
“Pessimism, by contrast, prepares us for a world that is constantly changing and surprising us. It tells us to banish our expectations and the… — Jacob Graham Copy Share Image
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.” — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even one's own parents: if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had some effect on my… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share
“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have to be filed in the brain as in the columns of a dictionary, enabling their owner to respond to the various stimuli from the outside… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely,… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"? — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
If you can do anything for love there's no reason you can't do everything to someone you love. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
An ex is an ex for a reason, they are an EXample of what you don't want in your future. — Alexia Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need to plan and direct activities, to regulate behavior, and to make efficient and effective use of these smarts. The trouble does not show up in math or reading; rather, it shows up when they need to… — Richard Guare Copy Share
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” — Ken Schramm Copy Share Image
