"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."

Talent, Genius, People

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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Talent, Direction, Lies

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Talent, Modernity, Media, Competition

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Talent, Truth, Happiness, Life, Inspirational

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Talent, Literature, School

"He has tongue of a writer."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Talent, Expression, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Talent, Writer

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Talent, Expression, Desire, Growth

"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Talent, Ability, Values, Skill

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Talent, Development, Environment, Gift

"What you are good at, you never do it free!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Talent, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Regret

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Man

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Experience

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

Effort

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

People

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Argument

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Virtue

"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

People

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

Doubt

"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority."

Superiority

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Idea