Top 25 Polymath Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Polymath

#1. Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

Shawn Lukas

#2. 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 ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#3. 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.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#4. Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female characters get to be Strong.

Sophia McDougall

#5. Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

#6. I firmly believed that with the breadth of knowledge now makes it impossible for someone to be a polymath in the 20th century-until I met Dr.Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad.

Abdus Salam

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

Karl Kraus

#8. James Croll, the Scottish janitor and self-taught polymath whose theories concerning Earth's orbit provided the first plausible explanation for how ice ages might have started.

Bill Bryson

#9. She did love Paul during certain hours of certain days. How many hours did you have to love someone to be in love?

Lincoln Michel

#10. Direct costs per student, compared with an economy-wide cost index

William G. Bowen

#11. It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

Geraldine Ferraro

#12. Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Susie Bright

#13. My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins.

Kirtida Gautam

#14. Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence.

Edward M Hays

#15. When I was interviewing Beth as a potential flatmate, I asked her about her hobbies. She said she enjoyed cooking for others. I asked her when she could move in.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#16. I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.

Stacy Keibler

#17. The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

John Stuart Mill

#18. This shit would make a hyperactive kid snore his way through Halloween.

L.J. Shen

#19. Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Patty Hearst

#20. Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.

Carl Sagan