Content tagged genius

Blog Entries

Not a situation puzzle: mystery man (found a month ago clad in a soaking wet suit and tie) can’t/won’t speak, but plays the piano … gulfstream/1760

Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania is asking people to pledge them some amount of money for each protestor that turns up outside their clinic … gulfstream/1841

Quotes Collected

Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman--not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were … quotes/383

Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … quotes/130

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce, _Ulysses_ quotes/70

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. They receive the soul as he also receives, but they more. -- … emerson/21

When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious, and itself pierced … emerson/20

What right have I to write on prudence, whereof I have little, and that of negative sort? ... I have no skill to make money spend well, no genius in … emerson/11