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Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Genius
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”
- Ideas
- Youth
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Genius
- Intelligence
I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses.
René Descartes1596–1650
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Debate
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Ideas
It is your mind that creates this world.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Ideas
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Genius
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
Sigmund Freud1856–1939
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Ideas
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- Ideas
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart