Polymaths Quotes

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.