Renaissance Man Quotes

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

“the choices we make dictate the life we lead”
― Danny De Vito

“If you don't, can't, or won't understand me, then you're just going to have to trust me”
― Frank H. Weeden

“Learn as much as you can. Part of this learning will be your art, learning all aspects of your craft in depth and always challenging the boundaries of your style and comfort zone. But also study the world, literature, philosophy, politics, science—all the things that combine to form life as we know it. Because art is the portrayal of life, and the more you learn, the more you will have to call upon and be inspired by. Finally, don’t be afraid to market yourself. No one else will do it for you. Know what you’re capable of, and do not rest until others see it, too.”
― Michael Bihovsky

“A polygogue is an enlightened, polished, and urbane competent man." - Philip Cairfax”
― Philip Cairfax

“Depth gets context with breadth and vice versa.”
― Richie Norton

“There is no single way to be a multipotentialite.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“You don't have to choose one thing.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“Wouldn't it be nice to return to some of the old theories? Soul and body? The four humours?'
'Oh, they never worked.'
'Of course they did. Everything works in its own period. Don't you think that people were cured by medieval doctors, soaking up black melancholy bile with white salpetre? We could no more use their remedies than they could use ours, but they did work once. That's what you have to remember. Of course some people say that they might work again.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The House of Doctor Dee