Age Quote by George Steiner

What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which,…

— Daniel Goleman

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the…

— Maria Montessori

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

— Karl Kraus

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

— Garry Kasparov

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which,…

— Daniel Goleman

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

— Mary Augusta Ward

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

— Louisa May Alcott

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs…

— Lev Vygotsky

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

— Gore Vidal

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of…

— Jonathan Swift