Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 4622.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311 -
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
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Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.
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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
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