The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where. Dorothy Thompson More Quotes by Dorothy Thompson More Quotes From Dorothy Thompson Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs? Dorothy Thompson organization years needs To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing. Dorothy Thompson too-much ends feelings Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war. Dorothy Thompson diversity justice war The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around. Dorothy Thompson 4th-of-july running long The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas? Dorothy Thompson ridiculous people school After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. Dorothy Thompson voice fire earthquakes Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands. Dorothy Thompson occupation brain hands Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. Dorothy Thompson lawlessness self inspirational Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. Dorothy Thompson law bird men The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. Dorothy Thompson intuition strong worship Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson will never peace order
