Human Genius Quotes
11 quotes by 9 authors
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
— Bertrand Russell
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius…
— Daniel Dennett
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
— Thomas Starr King
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known…
— Charles Krauthammer
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
— William Hazlitt
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
— Igor Stravinsky
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real…
— Vivienne Westwood
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All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Human Genius Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 11 Human Genius Quotes as follows: