The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being gifted needs courage.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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