Quotes for All
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility. G. H. Hardy
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. Ezra Pound
Genius… is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. Ezra Pound
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm
A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces. Enid Blyton
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. Emily Rodda
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. Eleanor Dark
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero’s only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise – easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that ‘good’ men in … Read more