Confidence Quote by Nuno Roque

“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths –…

— James Morcan, Lance Morcan

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure…

— Carl Sagan

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

— William T. Vollmann

“You don't have to choose one thing.”

— Emilie Wapnick

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all…

— Richard Dawkins

“En Skoemager maa og tildeels være Theologus; saa at han veed at giøre Forskiel imellem Religions-Secter: Thi eet er at arbejde for en Orthodox,…

— Ludvig Holberg

“When you're picking a project to pursue, try not to think of it as some massive commitment. Can you think of it as an…

— Emilie Wapnick

“I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I…

— Abdus Salam

“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious,…

— Emilie Wapnick

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

— Karl Kraus