“All genuine progress results from finding new facts” FactsResultsProgressGeniusFindingsGenuine Author:Wheeler McMillen
“All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.” ChildrenFactsSchoolWaitingEnvironmentGeniusOur ChildrenEverydayNeighborYour ChildrenUnnoticed Author:Peter Kline
“Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.” PeopleFactsAmericaReligiousInformationGeniusTruth IsLibraryInnovative Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.” MenDoneWholeFactsAblePastRememberFeltHeardGeniusUniversalMarkWhole LifeRemembranceVaryOrganisationEndowment Book:Sex & Character Source: Sex & Character
“It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasMatterFactsHappensHatePaintingGeniusCriticsIrrelevantGalleryMatter Of Fact Author:Milton Resnick
“The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.” ThinkingWorldWantSoulEndsFactsRealityLastsSecretGeniusIdealsStrongerBraveMusicalFollowingChanging The WorldVersesConformGreat IdeaHeartbreakingRealisationSecret LifeBrave SoulsMusical Genius Author:Katie Melua
“Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.” ThinkingMenWorldMayWarFactsTodayPastFacesCertainCreationGeniusTasksMethodCompetitionAffairInternationalDisasterSecureWar Of The WorldsConsiderationAbandonCooperationStakesImmensePeacemakingColossalInternational AffairsFuture Thinking Author:Albert Einstein