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A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
If everybody’s thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
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
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Genius
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Intelligence
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Ideas
- Talking
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unpopular Essays (1950)
- Intelligence
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015
I think; therefore I am.
René Descartes1596–1650Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr1885–1962Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg’s and Pauli’s nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper “Innovation in Physics” (Scientific American, 199, No. 3
- Ideas
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
- Clever Jabs
- Genius
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismannborn 1949
- Football
- Genius
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart