a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are… — Theodore Hook Copy Share Image
“Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I might not be all that good with mathematics in class; but go into my mind; and you will see that type… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes,… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
