Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
There's a lot of controversy online, some people say i'm a genius and other say i'm hugely talented. — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives… — Flea Copy Share Image
I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius'… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race… — Baha'i International Community Copy Share Image
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance. — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
“Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I didn't abandon my studies. Because I was, through no - clarify this. Through no particular genius of my own, I was… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius — Pablo De Sarasate Copy Share Image
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker” — Star Trek The Next Generation Copy Share Image