A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and b...
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. T...
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other...
Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with p...
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
Honey, I work for money not love.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Corruptio optimi pessima!' Grinned Sir . 'Judicio vulgi demens!' Snorted Sir .
Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
