#geniuses

Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#humor #wrongness #humor

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

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

#away #been #geniuses #historically #republicans

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

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#geniuses #luckiest #mortals #most #must

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color 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. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#administrative #color #course #fire #fit

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129 ↗

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

#geniuses #nature

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. ↗

— Mark Twain

#drinks #everybody #fortunately #geniuses #great