Original: Il vero valore di ogni animo umano non è un'abilità che si può acquisire attraverso lo studio, l'esperienza o l'apprendimento, ma una componente intrinseca, innata e autentica.
Source: prevale.net
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 5; Preface
"An Artistic Impression" (1909) in Style and Idea (1985), p. 190
before 1930
Woman and Her Era (1864), pt. 1, ch. 1
“Communicating is art: you don't study and you don't learn, it's innate and very rare.”
Original: Comunicare è arte: non si studia e non si impara, è innata e molto rara.
Source: prevale.net
Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)
“A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.”
Source: God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics
“I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience.”
Encounters (2006).
“Wisdom is a perfection of knowledge acquired through experience.”
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Context: The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator Himself, they stop short and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of His existence. They labor with studied ingenuity to ascribe everything they behold to innate properties of matter and jump over all the rest by saying that matter is eternal.
