How The World’s Largest Learning Leaders
“Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun” by Nicolas Poussin
“Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes”
Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.
Its meaning is, people who develop the intelligence of his future by absorbing a lot of great works of the greatest thinkers ever.
This relates to the sentence of Newton, the world’s greatest thinkers, “If I have been Able to see Further, it was only Because I Stood on the shoulders of Giants”.
Hancock Center, Michigan, at night
what is the difference
Among intelligent people, with people of genius whose mind can change the world? People like Einstein, Napoleon, Mozart, or Sukarno.
People of genius have big dreams, big as the whole world. They learn from great people, greatest in history, and absorb all the knowledge of them. Knowledge of it makes them happy dream. Nice to dream big. Dare to dream big. Things that were unimaginable by human-human.
And dreams of those who miraculously comes from a great power, something that only humans possessed supreme in the world (or mad men ..). Something called, Imagination ..