Achievement Quote by Frances Harper

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that…

— Daniel Hecht

“As long as you allow your intellectual force to pour out into the absolute, it moves in eddies, its power is dissipated, it is…

— Jacques Rivière

“This then is your challenge - to take the initiative and dare to be divine - not as a perfect kind of superhuman beyond…

— Richard Rudd

“an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

— David Icke

“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.”

— Dean Koontz

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few men realize…

— Joseph Conrad

“His defences were all in his wits and cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were abeyance he seemed doubly naked and…

— D.H. Lawrence

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine…

— Friedrich Nietzsche