“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
13 quotes in our collection
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other ”
“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness ”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom ”
“Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity ”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped”
“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head”
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head”
“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties”