“The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)
Napoleon in His Own Words (Secondary source)
A compilation of sayings attributed to Napoleon, issued without primary references; no original French source identified.
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“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Everything tells me I shall succeed.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified)“Imagination rules the world.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Intelligence precedes force. Force itself is nothing without intelligence. In the heroic age the leader was the strongest man; with civilization he has become the most intelligent of the brave.”
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill (unverified)“Peace of mind is the most important prerequisite for creative work.”
— Richard Feynman (verified, secondary source)“In the field of observations, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
— Louis Pasteur (verified)