A Quote by John Ciardi

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

John Ciardi

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John Ciardi
English - Dramatist
June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Leo Tolstoy

The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

Suzy Kassem

It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.

Amit Goswami

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Bruce Springsteen

Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

R.J. Rushdoony

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Swami Vivekananda

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Deepak Chopra

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.

Paul Watson

I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

Barack Obama

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

W. P. Kinsella

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them... He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

Milton Friedman

The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself

Alexandre Kojeve

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.