„Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
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„Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.“
Edward Gibbon
historien anglais et homme politique 1737 - 1794Publicité
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„Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.“
— John Stuart Blackie Scottish scholar and man of letters 1809 - 1895
Sonnet, Highland Solitude; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729.
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„UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.“
— Dennis M. Ritchie American computer scientist 1941 - 2011
quote.com/quotes/authors/d/dennis_ritchie.html, Brainy Quote.com http://www.brainy
„What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.“
— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917
Quoted in Degas' letter to Daniel Halévy, 31 Jan 1892, from Degas Letters, ed. Marcel Guerin, trans. Marguerite Kay (1947)
„I had the opportunity to be greeted with a conversation with the principal, the minute I stepped into school. It was of course regarding the previous post remarking on the various facets of school, experienced by me. I never conversed with the new principal that had just come in this year, but now I did. I’m glad I soaked up another facet of the school experience. It’s ironic that no one in the school who is considered a model student ever had a conversation with the principal, and it is the critical, naughty, rebellious ones that do. It’s rather odd that he seems to prefer acknowledging bad rather than good.“
— Amos Yee blogger 1998
„The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions“
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
Context: The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains. And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth.
„Why did my parents send me to the schools
That I with knowledge might enrich my mind?
Since the desire to know first made men fools,
And did corrupt the root of all mankind.“
— John Davies (poet) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569 - 1626
Stanza 1.
„Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
"Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
„In solitude she lived,
And in solitude built her nest;
And in solitude, alone
Hath the Beloved guided her,
In solitude also wounded with love. ~ 35“
— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591
„O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
„The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind.“
— Novalis German poet and writer 1772 - 1801
Context: When we speak of the aim and Art observable in Shakespeare's works, we must not forget that Art belongs to Nature; that it is, so to speak, self-viewing, self-imitating, self-fashioning Nature. The Art of a well-developed genius is far different from the Artfulness of the Understanding, of the merely reasoning mind. Shakspeare was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-gifted soul, whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same spirit; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find new harmonies with the infinite structure of the Universe; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, are simple and inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the word.
