Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great…

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.

— Hermann Hesse

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious…

— Barbara Smith

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

— Francine Rivers

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

— Henry Ford

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of…

— Henry Ford

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

— Anonymous

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

“Genius is the capacity to retrieve childhood at will.”

— Erik Wahl

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves.…

— Paul Goodman

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

— Denis Dutton

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

— Colin Powell

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'…

— Martin Rees

Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room.…

— Nancy Gibbs