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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Genius
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Clever Jabs
- Genius
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 6
- Talking
I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), Ch. 1
- Talking
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
- Ideas
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Genius
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Genius
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Ideas
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Ideas
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.
David Hume1711–1776A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding, Part 4, Section 7
- Philosophy
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
- Intelligence
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Intelligence
- Liberty
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Freedom
- Ideas
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- God