Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) U.S. critic, social reformer, write...
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) U.S. clergyman, Protestant ministe...
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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