Faculty Quote by William James Download Open image “Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faculty Genius Intelligence Way
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way — William James Copy Share Image
Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible. — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. — James Lipton Copy Share
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor — Kenneth Grant Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
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