#genius

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#american #backgrounds #college #compared #different

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#coin #current #fresh #genius #grows

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton Stephens

#hand #i #lies #profoundly #study

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#concludes #democratic #draw #favor #genius

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#being #between #called #difference #first

Taste is the feminine of genius. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#genius #taste

Every man is a potential genius until he does something. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#every #every man #genius #man #potential

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ↗