"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Inspirational Quotes #Men Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university â€“ it was commonsense.”
“Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.”
“Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.”
“It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.”

Source : "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.
“Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists are titans. My education was also very much in comic books, so I've been going to comic book events in New York and have met a few artists there.”
“When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?”
“The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.”
“I don't want to follow the herd.”

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