Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.
Bruce Charlton
Related Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made ... BALTASAR GRACIAN The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. OTTO WEININGER It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of... MARGARET FULLER In general, the number of disorders has increased (to the current 256 classification codes), partly ... JANE MCLEOD The cardiac market has been a very lucrative part of the healthcare system, partly because of growin... GLENN MELNICK Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its ra... MARY ASTELL This was the week that the administration discovered the tide wouldn't come in forever on presidenti... RICHARD FALKENRATH With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something el... BERTRAND RUSSELL I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civilit... GEORGE MCGOVERN I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highl... EDMUND WHITE Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading instit... DAVID FRUM Even Noah got no salary for the first six months partly on account of the weather and partly because... MARK TWAIN The findings are not at all surprising. This is partly because ethnic boundaries are real in our soc... CHANDRA MUZAFFAR Share prices fell partly on profit-taking and partly because of a seasonal factors but underlying ma... YUJI SHIMANAKA All of our losses have been because we partly beat ourselves and partly because we just failed to st... JASON FIFE He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys whoa re part wolf and par... DAVE EGGERS In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but a... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly bec... MARILYN VOS SAVANT But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par... ORSON SCOTT CARD Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits. ANDREW SOLOMON This is where I scribbled on the walls when I was little. This is where I took my first steps. All t... SAMANTHA PEREZ Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refus... J. B. PHILLIPS Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. NICHOLSON BAKER I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. JAMES WHISTLER I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am email... ANDREW MOTION What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what m... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani... JOYCE CAROL OATES People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of so... JEREMY HUNT There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or... SUZY KASSEM Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survi... , THE ART & SCIENCE OF RATIONAL EATING, 1992 Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survi... ALBERT ELLIS MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris. DON CLARK I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but hi... BEBE REXHA I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. JAMES WHISTLER There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. DON G. MITCHELL There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry DONALD GRANT MITCHELL Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. ARNOLD PALMER Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. JOSHUA REYNOLDS Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. JOSHUA REYNOLDS I never had the slightest desire to have cosmetic surgery - partly because I don't want to look ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, h... ROBERT KAGAN I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath... JACK STEINBERGER Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. TEHYI HSIEH Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Compliance will improve from February levels, partly because the winter demand will not be there and... LAWRENCE EAGLES One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He w... DAVE EGGERS A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ETHEL WILSON We traded Mike partly because we felt we might well lose him anyway and partly because if we kept th... KEVIN CONSTANTINE The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for th... TED NELSON Security zones should be partly in one state and partly in another, and it should be by agreement, b... GHASSAN KHATIB I like that hot air balloon.' I pointed to the ceiling where an antique looking wooden hot air ballo... JENNIFER BROWN Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed. BOB WILSON The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual ... MUHAMMAD IQBAL It was Vince who got me interested in this field. He is able to animate [buildings] in a way that is... EDWARD COOKE Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan. MIAN MUHAMMAD MANSHA If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don't accept me ... HASIL PAUDYAL Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because ... MATT TAIBBI A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics suppo... KUSNANTO ANGGORO The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religi... BILL MAHER On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American... OSCAR WILDE Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the so... MITCHELL BAKER The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ANONYMOUS The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ANONYMOUS The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. VOLTAIRE The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. WINSTON CHURCHILL The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ALBERT EINSTEIN The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits ANONYMOUS The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ARISTOTLE The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. KEN NDARU I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it ag... MARK TWAIN I buy everything India Arie, just because she's such a positive person, and I just love her musi... TIKA SUMPTER Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. NICHOLAS HASLAM They are not often reversed. I think that's partly because the 4th Circuit is relatively conservativ... A.E. DICK HOWARD We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. KNUTE ROCKNE The EU has become pretty cynical about sanctions. That is partly because there are so many important... MARK LEONARD Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but ... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec... NICK CLEGG Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. AL SPALDING The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especia... DAVID GROSS The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it. CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The stock market may fall on Monday partly because of a surge yesterday and because of investors' co... ARFAN KARNIODY Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts, JOHN SURTEES I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn... J.D. SALINGER A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid ... WILLIAM JAMES The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spirit... EDVARD MUNCH One of the biggest misperceptions about places of genius, I’m discovering, is that they are akin t... ERIC WEINER We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi... THOMAS CARLYLE Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times JOHN BURROUGHS We know that temperatures have gone up and it's partly caused by man. But let's hold our horses beca... BJOERN LOMBORG Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up a... COLLEEN ATWOOD I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again ... ROBERT SMITH My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it'... CHARLES CUMMING I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem o... JAY ROCKEFELLER
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