In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“(The word “genius” comes from the Latin, and originally referred to a guardian spirit that watched over the birth of each person;… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
“Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But they must always be approached with caution. Unity of… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do and,… — Jimmy Soni Copy Share Image
“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of… — Joshua Michael Stern Copy Share Image
I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
The problem with traditional pie weights is you never have enough and they're expensive. Common substitutes like dried beans just aren't heavy… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S Buck Copy Share Image
“I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the comics, there's a lot to sort of digest with Five. He's 58-years-old. He's trapped in this body. He has a… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child… My hemmings and hawings over… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
![“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. [...] Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive…” quote by Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/walter-isaacson-384_apple_was-steve-jobs-smart-no-not-exceptionall_3230565.jpg)
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