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
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me… — Edward B. Burger Copy Share Image
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds. — Piet Mondrian 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
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism.… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra — Myles Munroe 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
If I studied the way I do during finals week all year long, I would be a freaking genius. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Copy Share Image
I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser.” — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
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