Conflict Quote by Carl von Clausewitz Download Open image “Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.” — Carl von Clausewitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conflict Genius Intelligence Practice Talent Talent and genius Theory War
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius. — Henry Wilson Allen Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image