Quote by Albert Camus

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just tryi

Summary

The quote implies that the speaker does not aspire to be exceptionally intelligent or extraordinary. They feel overwhelmed with simply trying to navigate and cope with the challenges and expectations of everyday life, thus suggesting that they have no interest in adding the burden of being a genius to their struggles.

By Albert Camus

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adven

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situati

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian k

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Henry Louis Gates

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failu

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be eas

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it. . . . It is true that recollection has several degrees, and that in the beginning these great effects are not felt, because it is not yet profound enough. But support the pain which you first feel in recollecting yourself, despise the rebellion of nature, overcome the resistance of the body, which loves a liberty which is its ruin, learn self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantages which you gain from it. As soon as you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey: and this will take place without effort or care on your part. God thus rewards the violence which your soul has been doing to itself; and gives to it such a domination over the senses that a sign is enough when it desires to recollect itself, for them to obey and so gather themselves together. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Teresa of Avila

I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so t

I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so true. My heart knows right where to go.

Love Heart Angela Unearthly

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of h

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.