“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
Variant: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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Aldous Huxley290
English writer 1894–1963Related quotes
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
Variant: Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
Mrs Patrick Campbell (1895–1940) British stage actress
No definite source has been found for this statement; though most often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, and sometimes to Abraham Lincoln, it has only rarely been attributed to Campbell.
Disputed
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”
Joe Gores (1931–2011) American writer
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&q=%22The+secret+of+a+good+old+age+is+simply+an+honorable+pact+with+solitude%22&pg=PA199#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848) British writer
Solitude.
Curiosities of Literature (1791–1834)
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Isaac D'Israeli, The Curiosities of Literature, "Solitude".
Misattributed, Isaac D'Israeli
“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Wirklich ist jedes Kind gewissermaßen ein Genie, und jedes Genie gewissermaßen ein Kind.
Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
Evelyn Underhill Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 433
The Sparkling Stone (c. 1340)