Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

Isaac Mayer Wise

• Genius
• Intention
• Inconsiderate
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• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Think

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Think
  • Present
  • Person

• No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Negotiation
  • Session

• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  

  E. Howard Hunt
  • War
  • Cold

• So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Long
  • Remember
  • inspirational

• Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Moral

• Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • American
  • Culture

• No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Feel

• Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some government office. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Success
  • Right
  • Merit

• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Years
  • Down
  • Now

• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • War
  • Details
  • Harder

• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Genius
  • Intention
  • Inconsiderate