People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make people laugh. It's been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values .… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“It is very easy to create problems , rather than creating solutions, because you don’t have to think, and you don’t have… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image