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“We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...”

Ifs Waiting Information Source Genius Empathy Distrust Reliable Sources

Author:Randall Jarrell

“People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”

People Sides Creativity Greater Sea Effects Source Genius Function Mark Obsession Drag Anchors Inconvenient Badges Side Effects Brake Ocd

Author:David Adam

“Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.”

People Wells Quality Source Genius Stupidity Carrie Sensible Absurdity Sublime Amusement People Stupidity

Author:Christoph Martin Wieland

“The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.”

Years Problem Used Wealth Source Genius Years Ago Complexes Extraordinary Solve Recognition Andrew Public Good Carnegie Complex Problems John D Rockefeller

Author:Judith Rodin

“We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.”

Persons Doe Ideas Sometimes Problem Age Able Pain Together Energy Answers Modern Source Genius Solutions Combination Modern Age

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.”

Humans Past Secret Source Genius Karma Endless Legacy

Book:Seraphita: Works of Balzac

Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac

“To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.”

Ifs Inspirational Art Spirit Artist Literature Talent Source Genius Glory Opposites Chains Related Links Ancestor Nobility Aristocracy

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.”

Ifs Men World Heart Would Be Voice Moral Teach Source Genius Originals Sincerity Wiser Clamor

Author:Ludwig Borne

“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.”

Virtue Source Genius Essence Instinct Inquiry Spontaneity

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays