Quotes by Sarton, May

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to gi >>

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. >>

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of >>

Quotations about Talent

I believe that every person is born with talent. >>

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a de >>

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. >>

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

Sarton, May