Defined Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple Download Open image “Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.” — Edwin Percy Whipple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Faculty Genius Intelligence May Poverty
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way — William James Copy Share Image
As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James Copy Share Image
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to manage a… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image