Beautiful Quote by Don DeLillo

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

— Janet Flanner

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience,…

— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain and opens his mind…

— Anonymous

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to…

— Frank Herbert

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in work and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly…

— Guy de Maupassant

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual…

— B. R. Hayden

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that…

— James A. Michener