"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius."
― Walt Whitman
Topic(s):
Power
More From Walt Whitman
- "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
- "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
- "A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
More In Power
- "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."― Bertrand Russell
- "Necessity does the work of courage."― Nicholas M. Butler
- "It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."― Anthony Trollope