A Quotes
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“A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.”
Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.”
“A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.”
Source: The Iliad ...
“A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
“A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.”
“A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.”
Source: Reflections
“A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.”
Source: Thaddeus of Warsaw. A New and Rev. Ed: With the Addition of New Notes Etc., by the Author
“A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”
Source: Why God Doesn't Exist
“A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.”
“A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.”
“A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!”
“A GENIUS ALWAYS HAVE ONE THING IN HIS BOX, TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX.”
“A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.”
“A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
“A genius flirts with madness.”
“A genius has no one to go when he is thinking up a new field. He can't ask anyone anything because no one knows about the new field he is tackling. He has to find the answers himself. If you want to make real progress in life, you have to start finding your own answers.”
Source: The Book of Mind: Seeking Gnosis
“A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.”
Source: Sex & Character
“A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“A genius is a lunatic who made it!”
“A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.”
“A genius is a man who has two great ideas.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience”
“A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her”
“A genius is a talented person who does his homework.”
“A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”
Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A genius is born whenever he proves many facts wrong.”
“A genius is no more—and no less—than someone who insists on the truth, while others face the other way.”
“A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.”
“A genius is produced not by a woman’s womb but by a man’s efforts.”
“A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards
“A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.”
“A genius is someone who allows us to see things and realise. Something we didn't realise before. Children are geniuses. We were all children once”
“A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.”
Source: The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity
“A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.”
“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“A genius is the one most like himself.”
“A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.”
“A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.”
Source: On Authority and Revelation
“A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.”
“A GENIUS TAKE RISKS AND A STUPID TAKES TRAINING”
“A genius teacher loses time with a mediocre student! A genius student experiences the same thing with a mediocre teacher!”
“A genius that survives is the real genius.”
“A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.”
Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler
“A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?” an actress once quipped, and the quip captures the combination of brains, status, and sex appeal that made Nash so irresistible.”
Source: A Beautiful Mind