Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists Quotes

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
― James Geary, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists