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The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The scientific work of Georges Lemaître (1968), P.A.M
- Ideas
- Science
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
- Entertainment
- Ideas
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Contarini Fleming (1832), Part 4, Chapter 5.
- Genius
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Endymion (1880), Ch. 85.
- Advice
- Intelligence
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881
- Ideas
- War & Peace
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881
- Ideas
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1868–9), Part 3, Chapter 1 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1913)
- Genius
- Technology
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part 1, Chapter 5 (tr. Constance Garnett, 1918)In context
- Intelligence
- Talking
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part III, Chapter VIn context
- Emotion
- Intelligence
A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part I, Chapter VIIIn context
- Happiness
- Intelligence
The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part III, Chapter VIIn context
- Intelligence
The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IIIIn context
- Intelligence
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness⁠—a real thorough-going illness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part I: Underground, Chapter IIIn context
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 1In context
- Genius
- Inspiration
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 3In context
- Knowledge