Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)” — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall'… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo’s genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
