Astonished Quote by Aubrey Menen Download Open image “It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.” — Aubrey Menen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonish Astonished Astonished Genius Genius Astonish Intelligence Mark Mark Genius
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it. — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
“His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
“A thorough knowledge of the past could lead a profound scholar to predict the future course of history with great accuracy, provided that it… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
“The orb sat, exhausted and astonished. In a thousand years and more—it had never been thanked for failure.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.” — Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
