Exceptional Man Quotes
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
- There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor,… — Thomas Steven Molnar
- In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state… — Augusto Roa Bastos