Doe Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it.

— Christian Pulisic

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

— Mara Wilson

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and…

— Miles Franklin

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of…

— Boris Sidis

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover…

— John Green

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing…

— John Locke

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind…

— Blaise Pascal

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

— Isaac Stern

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would…

— Karl Jaspers