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The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
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You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Before printing was discovered,
a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord,
for I was not anchored to a house or farm,
but could follow the bent of my genius,
which is a very crooked one, every moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law
from observation of the works of Genius,
whether of man or Nature.
The Artisan is he who merely applies
the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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