Character Quote by Herbert Butterfield

“There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which…

— Henry Dircks

“As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by…

— Sean Patrick

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness…

— Anonymous

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species…

— Fred Hoyle

“There are absolute masterpieces that move us intensely: Mozart's Requiem, Homer's Odyssey, the Sistine Chapel, King Lear. To fully appreciate their brilliance may require…

— Carlo Rovelli

“I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.”

— Lin Yutang

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they…

— Deena Metzger

“Motion is life and life is motion, and a breakthrough is a catapult move that sets goals in motion.”

— oliver harper

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

— Steven Strogatz

“There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.”

— Richard Selzer

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust