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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the...
You see things; and say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing...
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.
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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escaped and recaptured it;...
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Source: Erskine, in The...
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a...
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or...
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of...
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully fostered by the inferiority complex of the...
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness,...
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
Source: Mrs. Stevens...
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
Source: Mrs....
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power...