We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
Copy QuoteThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Copy Quote View & ShareTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Copy Quote View & ShareA smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Copy Quote View & ShareKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Copy Quote View & ShareOften the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Copy Quote View & ShareSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Copy Quote View & ShareA man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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