This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could… — Paolo Uccello Copy Share Image
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“They ask me, do I ever worry about losing my magic? I tell them, my only worry is that, some day I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,… — John Robins Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
