Ambition Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was…

— Mark Twain

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

— George Bernard Shaw

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who…

— Ambrose Bierce

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things…

— Terry Pratchett

“I'm sure Mr da Quirm draws lovely pictures, but I for one would need a little more evidence of his amazing genius before we…

— Terry Pratchett

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Not that Quin, regarding this and other traits of his nature, was quite devoid of curiosity. But each time he set himself to give…

— Samuel Beckett

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other…

— Mark Helprin

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too…

— Anonymous

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

— Anonymous