#geniuses

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. ↗

— John Green

#intelligence #prodigies #intelligence

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields. ↗

— James Morcan

#genius #genius-writers #geniuses #higher-intelligence #intelligence

We allow no geniuses around our Studio. ↗

— Walt Disney

#around #geniuses #our #studio

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#geniuses #great #mostly #mothers #sad

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#geniuses #humility #left #more #needs

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#difference #education #equal #even #former