Accepting Quote by Wade Davis

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

— Frank X. Barron

...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the…

— John Blacking

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

— Aleister Crowley

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

— William Godwin

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going.…

— Tom Harpur

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has…

— Karen Armstrong

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

“believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall”

— Sean Patrick